Regarding the Sept. 9 article “AAFES will not sell book about bin Laden raid”: So much for the Army and Air Force Exchange Service keeping an open mind and not taking a stance against this book and its author. AAFES officials are not supposed to select sides; they are supposed to sell merchandise and, being here in Afghanistan at the present time, they do a very poor and unsatisfactory job at doing their job.

You can walk into the main post exchange on Bagram Air Field and the shelves are either empty or they carry items that are expired. AAFES also ups its prices from its stateside stores, which is not fair at all and the main reason that we are forced to either pay the higher prices or order online (this happens a lot).

I have ordered this book, “No Easy Day,“ through Amazon.com, a real retailer that just sells things at affordable prices and doesn’t get involved in the politics behind something like AAFES does.

Sad story!