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WE PAID A PRICE UNDER BUSH
Editor:
In his article “The wide world of Chaos,” Bill O'Reilly criticizes Obama for his “failure to communicate” with the rest of the world by borrowing the phrase uttered by the jail Warden in the 1967 movie, “Cool Hand Luke,” starring Paul Newman.
In contrast, O'Reilly proclaims that “The Bush administration basically did what it wanted to do without world approval. That made President Bush deeply unpopular, but also caused bad people to fear him. The signature achievement of the Bush years was a ruthless campaign against terrorists — and it worked. Al Qaeda was disseminated and no further foreign terror reached American soil.”
First of all, it is utterly unthinkable that our president has asked any other nation's permission before initiating any aspect of our foreign policy. Secondly, has the Al Qaeda ever been “disseminated” as he claims?
But let's talk about the Bush administration on a wider scale. Domestically, we have paid a great price by the actions taken by his administration. In her Sunday column, “Obama and the protesters,” Jeanette Strong provides a concise documentation of the deliberate undermining to our Constitution and the fundamentals of our democracy by O'Reilly's favorite president.
Lest we forget, we might have been kept physically safe, but does it make a difference were thousands of American lives are lost and tens of thousands injured along with innocent Iraqis in a bloody and needless “war of choice” on the other side of the globe?
Are we to disregard the fact that had we instead kept on concentrating our efforts with the rest of our allies in Afghanistan where we had every legitimate reason to be we might have truly disseminated the Al Qaeda by now instead of it spreading its deadly influence in the neighboring Pakistan along with the deadly virus called the Taliban?
Abraham Sadegh
Fallon
Editor:
In his article “The wide world of Chaos,” Bill O'Reilly criticizes Obama for his “failure to communicate” with the rest of the world by borrowing the phrase uttered by the jail Warden in the 1967 movie, “Cool Hand Luke,” starring Paul Newman.
In contrast, O'Reilly proclaims that “The Bush administration basically did what it wanted to do without world approval. That made President Bush deeply unpopular, but also caused bad people to fear him. The signature achievement of the Bush years was a ruthless campaign against terrorists — and it worked. Al Qaeda was disseminated and no further foreign terror reached American soil.”
First of all, it is utterly unthinkable that our president has asked any other nation's permission before initiating any aspect of our foreign policy. Secondly, has the Al Qaeda ever been “disseminated” as he claims?
But let's talk about the Bush administration on a wider scale. Domestically, we have paid a great price by the actions taken by his administration. In her Sunday column, “Obama and the protesters,” Jeanette Strong provides a concise documentation of the deliberate undermining to our Constitution and the fundamentals of our democracy by O'Reilly's favorite president.
Lest we forget, we might have been kept physically safe, but does it make a difference were thousands of American lives are lost and tens of thousands injured along with innocent Iraqis in a bloody and needless “war of choice” on the other side of the globe?
Are we to disregard the fact that had we instead kept on concentrating our efforts with the rest of our allies in Afghanistan where we had every legitimate reason to be we might have truly disseminated the Al Qaeda by now instead of it spreading its deadly influence in the neighboring Pakistan along with the deadly virus called the Taliban?
Abraham Sadegh
Fallon
