To whom it may concern,

Right now, the United States is involved in a huge conflict in Bosnia. We are sending more soldiers over there every day. We do not need to be sending soldiers over to fight a war that is not ours.

First, American soldiers are dying every day, and their families and friends are suffering greatly. They are fighting in battle to serve their country as a good soldier should, but they do not need to. Think about their families. I read an article in Newsweek about a father who had a six-month-old boy. One day, the father was suddenly called off to war in a country that his wife had hardly heard of. If this soldier dies in Bosnia, his little boy will have no recollection of what his father was like at all. He is too young to remember anything that they ever did together. Think what he will go through in his life. He won’t have anyone there to talk to when is too embarrassed to talk to his mom. He won’t have anyone to roughhouse with or watch football with. Worst of all, he will know that he had a good father, but he didn’t get to meet him because he died fighting someone else’s war.

Second, the United States is not the world’s police department. We are not here to solve everyone’s problems. Sure, if we are asked to help, we should send some soldiers to help, but we do not need to send as many as we have to Bosnia. We have not even been asked to help and we are sending over hundreds of soldiers every month. We are just butting into these other countries’ problems and trying to solve them. Someone needs to give Bill Clinton and Congress a few history lessons. Then they might realize that the Serbs and Croats have been fighting for hundreds of years and probably will continue fighting for at least a few more hundred years. It is not the place of the United States to try and resolve the whole world’s conflicts. We should stay out of it, offer advice if asked, and let them settle it between themselves.

Third, we are spending an average of $600 million dollars a year to keep our soldiers in Bosnia. We could be spending this money on much more worthwhile things. We could be giving more money to medical researchers, who are way under budgeted, to work on things like finding a cure for A.I.D.S. A.I.D.S. poses a much greater threat to the American society at large than the war in Bosnia does. They could also be spending it on things like building more prisons. Our prisons are very crowded and often times hardened criminals are released back into society before they have fully learned their lesson. Finally, they could spend the money on paying off the national debt. Five or six million dollars doesn’t sound like too much compared to a few trillion, but every little bit helps.

I don’t believe there is any reason to keep Americans in Bosnia. We are losing soldiers for no reason, and we are pulling ourselves greater into debt. The biggest reason that we should get them out, though, is that it is not our war, and we have no business trying to intervene in someone else’s problems.

Sincerely,

W. Axl Rose