In Don Kane’s letter in the March 2 Herald he refers to terrorism foreign and domestic (“Terrorism: Real spies needed to prevent attacks”). He’s right considering the fact that the anthrax used in the attacks after Sept. 11 came from domestic stocks. The U.S. is the only country with the technology to produce the strain of anthrax that was used in some of the attacks.

Also, there is the fact that the U.S. is harboring terrorists right here, in Florida for example, and also trains Latin American dictators at the School of the Americas in Georgia. They then go back to their countries where, in Colombia for instance, 4,000 union leaders have been killed in the last 15 years by said dictators trained here in the U.S.

Osama bin Laden was trained by the CIA in the 1980s during the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan. The contras in Nicaragua, who were funded and trained by the CIA against the Sandinistas, were called “freedom fighters” by Ronald Reagan, when what they really were doing was oppressing people fighting for true democracy in their country. That’s something the U.S. will always try to prevent if it risks their profits in a particular part of the world.

There is also the fact that when it came to light that Timothy McVeigh, and not some Middle Eastern terrorists, was behind the Oklahoma City bombing in 1995, they stopped referring to it as a terrorist act and no white people were profiled or rounded up. No, that only happens to Arab Americans and people of color.

Lynnwood