Safety At Home

Dear editor:

Mr. Bush continues to push his mistaken war with the excuse that our troops know what the problem is. He says that "They know that if we do not confront these evil men abroad, we will have to face them one day in our own cities and streets, and they know that the safety and security of every American is at stake in this war, and they know we will prevail." He's not very original.

We've heard those words before when our leadership tried to explain the "Domino Theory" and our safety at home. Writing in Collier’s magazine in January 1954, GOP Senate leader Knowland of California said, “We must not fool ourselves into thinking we can avoid taking up arms with the Chinese Reds. If we don’t fight them in China and Formosa, we will be fighting them in San Francisco, in Seattle, in Kansas City."

Strange how we recognized Communist China, import billions annually from them, and they didn't attack San Francisco, Seattle or Kansas City. Senator Knowland was wrong in 1954 and Mr. Bush is wrong now.