MFSO Member's Letter to the Editor published in New York Times 7-10-07 in response to New York Times Editorial "The Road Home"

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/08/opinion/08sun1.html?_r=1&oref=slogin

To the Editor:

As the mother of an active-duty United States marine, I am conflicted by your editorial. While I applaud your bold stance — “It is time for the United States to leave Iraq” — it is clearly too little, too late.

You admit to putting off this conclusion, hoping against hope that the feckless George W. Bush would have the vision or means to pull off a miracle in Iraq, while much of your reality-based readership foresaw the disaster, having already discounted the war-mongering propaganda well before the ill-fated invasion four years ago.

My son is scheduled to return to the lost cause of Iraq next February. It will take much more than a lengthy editorial in The Times to bring the troops home by then, or any time in the foreseeable future. Lives, limbs and treasure will continue to be lost and spent in this endless quagmire, this nightmare of Kafkaesque proportions.

Donna J. Anton
Hayle, England, July 8, 2007