Persuasive Essay: Bring Our Troops Home In The United States

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Bring Our Troops Home
In the United States many people believe that maybe our troops should not be overseas in the middle east. In the Iraq and Afghanistan, we've lost 6,831 soldiers for being in a war that we didn't have to be in. I don't believe we should still have our troops overseas for reasons not concerning to us.
The reasons we should bring our troops home are countless but one of the top ones is that the Afghan and Iraq war is the longest in American history. Having our service men and women over there for 10 plus years is not okay, we have done what we went over there to do in 2012 by assassinating Bin Laden. It is not our problem and should not be our priority for us to send our American over there to protect those middle eastern …show more content…

Citizens want the military out of the middle east so that our country would have more funding to construct bridges, fix roads and highways, and get out of our 14 trillion dollar debt a little at a time. Since we entered the war in 2001 the government has spent a little over 320 billion dollars on the war effort. Our national security is at risk more than ever, we have terrorist cells living in the continental states. From left over al Qaeda and Taliban soldiers in our country is still very dangerous not even counting the new imminent threat isis that has taken a strong foothold in Syria. Them, and many other groups have threatened our country and its citizens fortifying the reasoning to bring our troops home to defend the home front, so that our military can have more spending on defenses for the continental United States.
The fight we are battling Afghanistan and Iraq are unwinnable and we do not remembering the lessons we learned from Vietnam. Vietnam and Afghanistan are nearly the same size and with Vietnam being a poor country in 70s, and sending over 537,000 american troops to stabilize the country and turn it away from communism didn't work. You’d think the government would think back to that time when now what these poor countries, Afghanistan being the fourth poorest countries, would need social and economic development not our troops. There is no way to win this war