TOWNSHEND — We are all responsible for the massacre in Afghanistan.
We permit this war to continue, so the Army and the Marines are forced to rely on enlisted personnel who are sent back, again and again, into combat duty.
As a combat veteran with the 100th Infantry Division in Europe during World War II, my experience has shown that people have limits before they crack - limits that no one can predict, since each person is different.
If we are to fight wars, we need universal military service, so that our politicians have some idea of the consequences of war.