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Dear Editor,

A year ago Aug. 15, we gave Afghanistan back to the Taliban. We also gave something else away too.

Just before that dismal event, a young man working on my property had just come off Army duty in Afghanistan. When I asked him what we were really doing there after 20 odd years, he replied without hesitation: Guarding the minerals. So now that these minerals, needed for all this greenery that Congress has passed, are given to China or who knows who else, its our additional loss and a gain for our biggest adversary.

Its a gain too, not for us lumpen taxpayers, but for Speaker Nancy Pelosis son, Paul. Hardly an expert on minerology, he is nonetheless being paid hundreds of thousands of dollars to sit on various boards of Chinese mineral companies. I wonder why. The Chinese are rapaciously gobbling up the mineral efforts in the Congo, and reports are coming out of the harshest and cruelest treatment of the miners. Meanwhile, efforts here in the U.S. to mine for these essentials are discouraged by this administration. (Full disclosure: I own shares in a U.S. lithium mining company based in Arkansas, but so far I dont hear any calls for its support.)

So I will continue driving my 2009 Ford Fusion until we stop coddling alien efforts and encourage domestic ones like affordable hydrogen cars and geothermal heating for homes and businesses. And until that time, no super-annuated quasi-socialist senator from Vermont, or hyperventilating, squeaking congresswoman from Queens, or some neurotic teenager going around in a $15 million yacht with a diesel engine just in case, have anything to say to me.

Ann Playfair

Woodstock, N.Y.

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Letter: What we gave away in Afghanistan - The Daily Freeman