Withdraw Troops From Afghanistan: Navy Wife

President Barack Obama received a new plea from the wife of a Navy fighter pilot. Withdraw American troops from Afghanistan now, said Lisa Leitz, a board member of Military Families Speak Out.

 WASHINGTON, D.C. — President Barack Obama received a new plea from the wife of a Navy fighter pilot.

Withdraw American troops from Afghanistan now, said Lisa Leitz, a board member of Military Families Speak Out.

“I think that after eight years of war it has become quite clear that especially to those of us who are the very few Americans who are really suffering in this war that the price is not worth it,” she told CNN last Tuesday.

Leitz added. “We have a corrupt Afghanistan government, and we have a number of people who are still trying to attack us, particularly not because they belong to the Taliban or terrorist organizations, but rather because we are occupying them.”

Leitz dismissed the idea that the U.S. military must wage war for the sake of honoring the reputation of dead soldiers.

“I don’t think that we honor sacrifice by continuing to make a mistake. I think that we should honor those lives by doing what’s right and what’s right is to leave Afghanistan,” she said.