Reader offers thoughts on foreign affairs

 Dear editor,

I think the world may be about to come to an end. Ms. Miner wrote a column in last week’s paper that I totally agree with.

If it were up to me, Mr. Cheney and his sock puppet, George W. Bush, would spend the rest of their lives in prison. But it isn’t and they won’t.

You might point out to Ms. Miner that the Charter of the United Nations specifically forbids its member nations from interfering in the internal affairs of individual nations and that Charter is a treaty, signed by the executive and ratified by the congress of this country and is therefore the law of the land here. Also note that providing support to either side in a civil war is a war crime under international law. Then think about who ordered the bombing of the government forces during the fracas in Libya several years ago and who is now actively supporting the Islamist terrorists that are trying to overthrow Bashir Assad in Syria.

Mr. Obama is hopelessly naïve if he thinks those Islamists he likes so much are going to like him whether or not they are successful.

I also agreed with your column in the same edition. The government shouldn’t be able to tell religions what they’re required to accept and neither should religions be telling government what it should be doing.

Yours,

Bob Ackley