This letter is in regard to Allison Warner’s Oct. 3 letter titled “More violence won’t rid the world of all its evil.”

As a normal rule, I don’t like to pass comment regarding letters to the editor. Even if I totally disagree with what someone has to say, I feel that their opinion should at least be heard. Having said that, Allison Warner of Camano Island has caused me to speak out. Her opinion expressed in The Herald was outrageous, to say the least.

Does she really believe that the United States is comparable to Hitler’s Germany? Obviously, she never heard of a character by the name of Joseph Stalin or the unknown millions of people who he had murdered.

Does she have such a limited grasp of history to believe that America was the wrongdoing party when we defeated Japan in 1945? Apparently she never read the accounts of the Japanese in China in the 1930s and 1940s. I wonder if she ever heard about the Rape of Nanking or the Bataam Death March.

What I want to know is this: If America is such an evil nation, if it is true that our leaders are as bad as Hitler, if we are a corrupt and immoral people, then why does she continue to live among us? Presumably, she is a citizen of the United States. Presumably she pays taxes to the government of the United States. The taxes that she pays go to support that very government which has committed such evil. If such is the case, then it would seem that Allison Warner supports a government who has, to use her own words “possibly unleashed more evil on the globe in the last 60 years than any other nation save Hitler’s.”

That makes me wonder about Allison and the rest of the bleating peaceniks out there. If they really believe that America stinks, then perhaps they should move to Iraq or Afghanistan. Surely Saddam Hussein, Osama bin Laden and the Taliban would welcome them with open arms. Maybe we should start taking up a collection to send the America haters to where they really want to go. Hey, I’m good for $10.

Marysville