Letter writer Dan Palmer has the cart before the horse concerning patriotism and protesting (“Enemy watching our divided nation,” Thursday). What divides America is the act of going to war in Vietnam or Iraq for the wrong reasons or actually no good reason at all. When poor politicians use bad reasons to make our military prosecute a war, that divides America in and of itself.
Sept. 11, 2001 did unite our country. We ousted the Taliban and began reconstructing Afghanistan, all with overwhelming support of the American people. The Bush administration, however, chose to distract us from this course of eliminating terrorists by invading Iraq. The president frittered away international outrage with terrorism and world wide support for our 9/11 losses by single-handedly rejecting any foreign help and foolishly staking out his own vendetta and manipulating our citizens.
Times have changed. Those opposed to Iraq are not part of a “drug induced counter-culture” spouting empty diatribe, nor was that the case in Vietnam. It seems to me our “primary enemies” are not in the Middle East , but in Washington, D.C.
Steve Morse
Snohomish
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