Democracy can be forced on others

In response to the Nov. 21 letter, “It’s old tactics to blame Democrats,” several facts need to be made clear. The writer claims that democracy can’t be forced on people of different cultures. She must not have been around when in World War II we forced democracy on Imperial Japan, Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy. They have done pretty well since then. The cost was 420,000 of our servicemen’s lives.

Contrary to the letter, we did not try to force democracy on South Korea, but fought to keep it from being overrun by the communist North at a cost of 50,000 U.S. servicemen. We also tried to keep South Vietnam free, but lost the war to the leftist press and the Democrat politicians in Washington. Remember who started that war? John F. Kennedy! Afterward, not only were the South Vietnamese butchered by the thousands, but Cambodia fell to the communists and Pol Pot murdered 2 million of his people. Better we had stayed the course.

With much opposition from the Demos against President Reagan’s support of the Contras, the people of Nicaragua voted out the dictator, Daniel Ortega, and it became a democracy. In Panama and Grenada we kicked their dictators out by force and they are still free. El Salvador is also a democracy.

Not only do Demos forget history, they try to rewrite it. Some of this can be blamed on ignorance, but most can’t.

Buck Nunn

Camano Island