LETTERS: Frederick’s column lacking context
To the editor:
Sherman Frederick teamed up, not surprisingly, with political cartoonist Michael Ramirez for a column lacking historical context in another predictable criticism of President Barack Obama (“Goodness, snakes alive! Appeasement failed!” Sunday Review-Journal). The U.S. has shamelessly supported such ruthless tyrants as Augusto Pinochet, Fulgencio Batista, Francois Duvalier and of course Saddam Hussein for the simple reason that despite their despotic rule, they served U.S. interests.
It was President George W. Bush who undid the imposed harmony of two political groups in Iraq – the Shia and the Sunni — and the legacy of this mindless invasion in 2003 began the hellish domino action that’s still embroiling the Middle East today. Mr. Frederick blames President Obama for the conflagration in Iraq and Syria, but anyone even marginally aware of the political landscape at that time knows that it was President Bush, cowboy that he was, who decided to put Hussein in the cross-hairs. And it was at that point that destructive events began to spiral out of control.
JOHN ESPERIAN
LAS VEGAS
Right-wing R-J
To the editor:
I subscribe to your mediocre newspaper because I have read newspapers for the last 50 years in the many places I have lived. I can put up with all the Review-Journal’s right-wing rants because they are on the opinion page, where they belong.
However, I have noticed that the Review-Journal has let reporter Laura Myers write hit pieces on Hillary Clinton and Sen. Harry Reid full of the usual right-wing talking points and nasty smears. The R-J has published those stories on the front page and in the Nevada section, as if Ms. Myers were reporting hard news. This is bad and sleazy journalism.
Please put Ms. Myers in the opinion section with your other right-wing scribes, or at least identify her work as commentary, as you do for John L. Smith.
JACK DEMPSEY
LAS VEGAS
Health care exchange
To the editor:
I beg to differ regarding Anne Hawkins’ letter to the editor (“Obamacare not to blame for state’s health care exchange woes,” Sept. 6 Review-Journal). The Review-Journal did get it correct: President Barack Obama is responsible for 100 percent of the blame for the state’s health care exchange.
If it weren’t for the fact that President Obama and all the Democrats shoved this debacle on the American people, against the majority’s wishes, there wouldn’t be the need for a state exchange. I am assuming that Ms. Hawkins is a supporter of the president, who along with others looks at his tenure through rose-colored glasses and refuses to face reality. Ms. Hawkins and numerous voters were misinformed and voted to re-elect President Obama.
If voters would have informed themselves before getting into the voting booth, this country wouldn’t be in the mess it is in now. I just hope that when those voters step into the voting booth this November, they remember that no Republican voted for Obamacare.
MARLENE DROZD
LAS VEGAS
Reid, Redskins and bribery
To the editor:
I read that Harry Reid is accusing the Redskins of bribery (“Who’s bribing?,” Sunday Review-Journal editorial). All I’ve got to say is that ol’ Harry sure ought to know bribery when he sees it.
TOM BROWN
HENDERSON
