Letter: Let’s bring our troops home to protect U.S.

Monday, July 23, 2007 | 7:08 a.m.

I was thinking the other day about what kind of people blow up people and buildings. Drug runners in Mexico have done atrocious acts, "home grown" criminals have done horrible things to each other and innocent victims. Then I started thinking about all the "likely attacks" that we have been warned about over the last few years.

If you substitute the words "al-Qaida" with "Mafia" or "drug runners" or "criminals," couldn't we be back to the point where we empower our best police and security forces to respond to these acts and put the crooks behind bars? How in the world does keeping our brave military men and women in a "war" sold to us by pure and outright lies help protect the population from these would-be "evil doers"?

Scotland Yard did a good job with the potential criminals recently. Are our police forces not as good? Of course they are, so let them do their jobs. Bring the military back to protect America instead of leaving them to die for someone else's civil war.

Don Bright, Henderson