TO THE EDITOR:

I read your column ìAaronís Observations ñ Iraq War: London.î It left to wonder, ìAnd your point is?î I really want to end there, but I will make clear my question.

Are we to sit on our hands? Former administrations did nothing when the U.S.S. Cole was bombed and nothing after the first World Trade Center bombing. We still were targets of violence when our foreign policy was to turn the other cheek. There are all kinds of arguments on both sides over terrorism and the war on it.

Some argue that our presence overseas incites the extremists, our wealth and power creates jealously and thus more attacks. Most of these nations sit on vast resources of oil and could also be wealthy nations but for the greed of their rulers. Of course there are breeding grounds for ìyoungî people to train to be terrorists. But freedom and democracy has been realized in Iraq.

The opportunities opening up to the young men and women, who now can go to school for the first time, or the doctor, who now have clean water and electricity, will have a trickle effect and stop the hating. It has already taught tolerance.

However, you will never hear it from the media. Talk to a military family who get first hand stories of the gratitude the Iraqi public shows our armed forces personnel. Are you afraid to ask?

No, I am standing behind our offensive measures and the men and women courageous enough to carry them out, even on the behalf of those who protest, such as you Mr. Vehling.

What really scares me, is not young or left-leaning liberal ideas or the Democratic partyís stance on this particular issue, but the ìHARD leftî that is obviously infiltrating the Democratic party from the inside out. They are anti-American socialists and they are shredding the American fabric to bits. They are the ACLU who is against everything our founding fathers ever said or did. (After all, our founding fathers were ìsexistî white men.) They are the media who only report what they think Americans should hear and even ìhowî and when it should be heard. (Itís incongruously always the bad news.) They are the liberal judges who let criminals go and outlaw the Pledge of Allegiance in nine U.S. states. A patriotic Democrat in the public arena is hard to find.

We want to fight terrorism on our own soil, thus the ìPatriot Actî but even that comes under attack from politicians and the ACLU, even though not one complaint has been filed as a result of those measures. There are more steps we could take to safe guard our borders and double check the identity of our citizens, but this group of HARD left ìcitizensî radically oppose them all. Even ìwhistle blowersî on terrorism are vilified. We just continue to roll out the red carpet to immigrants from terrorist-sponsoring nations, because not to do so would be racist.

So, Mr. Vehling, please expound for me and tell me: Just what IS your point?

Valarie Dereschuk
Stacy

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