Letter: Diplomacy the only route After fighting in Afghanistan for 20 years and spending more than 1.5 trillion dollars and accomplishing nothing but starvation for millions and political instability in the country, the withdrawal was the correct step. What did the United States learn from this terrible mistake, which cost the American taxpayer $300 million a day for 20 years? It seems that our current government had not learned anything to avoid making the same mistake again in Ukraine. Let’s…
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HAPPENIN’ OTSEGO for THURSDAY, MAY 20 Afghanistan In Photographs from Military Experience of Joshua Ives NOBLE EAGLE – 2 p.m. Cooperstown Senior Community Center presents Joshua Ives sharing his story of his military experience in Afghanistan through photography. Brick building behind St. Mary’s Church, 31 Elm St., Cooperstown. coopseniorcenter@gmail.com…
Soldier With Cooperstown Ties Killed In Friendly Fire Incident COOPERSTOWN Staff Sgt. Scott Studenmund, 24, of Pasadena, Calif., whose family ties to Cooperstown go back several generations, was one of five soldiers killed Monday in Afghanistan in a friendly fire incident. Studenmund’s parents, Woody, an economics professor at Occidental University, and Jaynie Miller, former eHarmony CEO, summer on Otsego Lake, according to Martha McGowan, a family friend. Neighbor Marlin James told CNN that Scott knew from a very early age that…