To the Editor:

Is the USA really a Christian nation?

Nothing better illustrates the cruelty and destructiveness of warfare than the U.S. sanctions policy being imposed on Afghanistan - an economic and financial blockade by the U.S. and its allies, who refuse to accept the reality of their defeat in the 20-year war there. More Afghans are dying from those sanctions than during the war years.

Cut off from all but a trickle of humanitarian aid, roughly 23 million men, women and children are facing food insecurity, a number that’s expected to grow if the international response remains as piecemeal as it has been. They have no money to buy food, or anything else. Without emergency supplies of food, adequate shelter, electricity and warm clothing, thousands won’t survive this winter.

It’s morally inexcusable that the same governments that kept Afghanistan so dependent on external support for the last 20 years have yanked away that support when it is most needed for the Afghan people to survive and recover. it is incumbent on the U.S. and its allies to alleviate the massive suffering that their policies are creating.

It is also the bankrupt U.S. and its NATO allies, which are willing to sacrifice Ukraine in an effort to destroy Russia, and to sacrifice Taiwan in order to destroy China - up to an including thermonuclear war.

Listen to the wise words of Lyndon and Helga Zepp-LaRouche before it’s too late. Get our nation to engage with the other great powers of this world to back off from war, and cooperate in building a mutually peaceful and prosperous future, based on the creator’s natural law. As so well put in our Declaration of Independence and in the preamble to the Constitution, God has given us free will to reason together. Let us use that reason.

Ron Wieczorek
Mount Vernon