Seeds planted in Reagan era

Published 1:14 pm Wednesday, January 6, 2016

Regarding the letter, “Blame belongs to our president”: It’s disappointing that the Herald editorial board would print a letter blaming the president for terrorism. Obviously the writer has no knowledge of history, just hatred. He points out the world order, and the academic elite and multinational corporations as Obama’s vision — far from the truth. He, like the Republic-con party who love the world order, as long as we rule it, do not want people to be educated, unless they can profit from it, and bow down to multinational corporations by letting them ship our manufacturing jobs overseas and gild them with tax cuts and off-shore tax breaks. These are the true terrorists and unpatriotic to our country.

As to where terrorists came from you have to look back in history from the end of World War II until now and the CIA, corporations and the neocons’ involvement in overthrowing elected governments and training hit squads to kill civilians who didn’t support the governments they installed. Imagine they might resent that and fight back. Reagan had al-Qaida to the White House and supported them in a proxy war with Russia. They later flew planes into the Twin Towers.

The writer cries out about the innocents who die. Where was he when the Bush administration lied us into war that killed 4,500 of our soldiers, not counting millions of Iraqis. Obama inherited this from previous sins of our CIA, corporate involvement and the neocon beliefs of world economic domination. We now have the Republic-con party calling for more killing, more war. Wanting to ban Muslims refugees, which we created with our wars. So it isn’t Obama who created the terrorist, it is the ignorance of people like the writer.

Stuart Clift

Everett