Wolemba Gerry Condon, Wachiwiri kwa Purezidenti, Veterans For Peace
Monga msilikali wankhondo waku Vietnam, ndidayang'ana kwambiri za Mlembi wa Chitetezo Chuck Hagel Zolankhula za Veterans Day, yoperekedwa ku Vietnam Veterans Memorial Wall. Mlembi Hagel, msilikali wankhondo waku Vietnam, adalengeza kuti tiyenera kuphunzira maphunziro ankhondo zam'mbuyomu, ndipo tisapereke asitikali aku US ku mikangano yosakondedwa, yosagonjetseka. Ananenanso za nkhondo ya Vietnam, koma akanatha kufotokoza mosavuta ntchito za US ku Iraq ndi Afghanistan.
Boma la US ndi asitikali akuwoneka kuti adzinyenga okha pamene akusocheretsa anthu aku America, ponena kuti ntchitozi zinali zofunika, zinali ndi zolinga zomveka bwino ndipo zinali zopambana. Monga ku Vietnam, adanama za kupita patsogolo kwawo ku Iraq ndi Afghanistan. Kumapeto kwa ngalandeyo kunali kuwala, tinauzidwa, ngati titalola “kuwomba” kwinanso.
Ntchito za US ku Iraq ndi Afghanistan zabwera pamtengo waukulu. Mabiliyoni pa mabiliyoni a madola, ofunikira kwambiri pakuwongolera moyo wa anthu aku America, adawonongeka pa atsogoleri achinyengo ndi makontrakitala achitetezo. Pafupifupi miliyoni miliyoni aku Iraq ndi Afghans, makamaka anthu wamba, adataya miyoyo yawo. Enanso mamiliyoni ambiri anakhala othaŵa kwawo opanda pokhala ndi ana amasiye.
Asitikali zikwi zisanu ndi chimodzi aku US adataya miyoyo yawo ku Afghanistan ndi Iraq, ndipo ochulukirapo adzipha kuyambira pomwe adachokera kunkhondo. Mazana a zikwi za asilikali akale adzapitirizabe kuvutika ndi mabala akuthupi, m'maganizo ndi m'makhalidwe, ndipo ambiri akugwirizana ndi asilikali ankhondo a ku Vietnam omwe akukhalabe m'misewu ya mizinda yathu.
Zochita zazikuluzikulu za ntchito za US izi zakhala kulimbikitsa a Taliban ku Afghanistan, kukhazikitsidwa kwa gulu lankhondo lachikhazikitso la ISIL ku Iraq ndi Syria, ndikuyambitsa nkhondo zapachiŵeniŵeni zamagazi zomwe zidzapitirire zaka zikubwerazi.
Ndiye taphunzirapo maphunziro a mbiri yakale monga Mlembi Hagel adachenjeza pa Tsiku la Ankhondo? Zikuoneka kuti ayi. Purezidenti Obama adalengeza sabata ino kuti walola kutumiza asitikali ena a 1500 ku Iraq ("pa pempho la Secretary Hagel"). General Martin Dempsey, Wapampando wa Joint Chiefs of Staff, adauza Congress sabata ino kuti "ife tikuganiza" kutumizidwa kwa asitikali aku US ku Iraq.
Pakadali pano, US ikuchita kampeni yolimbana ndi zida za ISIL osati ku Iraq kokha, komanso ku Syria, komwe anthu opitilira 850 aphedwa ndi mabomba aku US, kuphatikiza anthu wamba ambiri.
Atsogoleri athu ankhondo ndi ankhondo akunyalanyaza momveka bwino phunziro lapakati la kugonjetsedwa kwa US ku Vietnam: Mabomba a US ndi asilikali sangathe kugonjetsa zigawenga m'mayiko ena; anthu a m’mayiko amenewo okha ndi amene ali ndi mwayi wodziwira tsogolo lawo. Komanso, US alibe ufulu, mwalamulo kapena mwamakhalidwe, kuwukira mayiko ena.
Ngati boma lathu likukana kuphunzira maphunzirowa, ndiye kuti anthu ayenera kumveketsa mawu athu momveka bwino. Sitingalole boma lathu kupitirizabe kutchova njuga ndi magazi athu amtengo wapatali ndi chuma chathu, kuwirikiza kawiri pa ndondomeko zomwe zalephera.
Ankhondo a Mtendereakutumiza uthenga ku White House ndi Congress. Tatopa ndi nkhondo zopanda pake. Tikufuna kuti asitikali onse achoke ku Iraq ndi Afghanistan nthawi yomweyo. Timatsutsa kulowererapo kwina kwa US kunkhondo yamagulu ku Syria.
Monga mamiliyoni ankhondo akale ankhondo ambiri aku US, tikukhulupirira kuti ndi nthawi yoti boma lathu liphunzire za mbiri yakale. M'malo mobwerezabwereza kulowererapo kwankhondo m'malo mwa zomwe zimatchedwa "zokonda za US" (nthawi zambiri zofuna za olemera 1%, zogulidwa ndi magazi a anthu osauka kwambiri 1%), timakhulupirira kuti kusonyeza kulemekeza ufulu wa mayiko ena ndiko. njira yopezera tsogolo labwino kwa anthu onse, kunyumba ndi kunja.
