Vice President Joe Biden listens as President Barack Obama speaks about the Islamic State group on Feb. 11 from the White House. (Jacquelyn Martin, Associated Press file)
President Obama plans to continue the same failed policies of Presidents George W. Bush and Lyndon B. Johnson, wherein we won all the battles but lost the wars. Such policies create dependencies-clients who throw down our weapons and run as soon as they are challenged to defend their own. The Islamic State is an ideology and force created in the region, and it must be defeated by those in that region. If we are the ones who defeat the Islamic State, it will just fade away to fight another day, stronger and more widespread than before.
Gary Hall,Denver
This letter was published in the Feb. 27 edition.
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