Re: Grant Marcus’ March 13 commentary, “Is U.S. headed down the path Germany took?� and Carla Bonney’s March 28 commentary, “Muslims get help from Christians�:
The Saturday Evening Post used to have a regular feature called "The Perfect Squelch," which neatly skewered some previously published literary rudeness or ignoramus opinion with particularly noteworthy finesse.
Perfectly squelched, in my opinion, was Marcus’ commentary by Bonney’s reply. One could almost wish for the publication of even more such misinformed opinions of Marcus' ilk to open the door to more Bonney-type perfect squelches.
Marcus is dedicated to and trained as a male nurse in the healing arts. Any wounded person would certainly benefit from his professional attentions. But the wounds he is inflicting on his own country by such ignoramus renderings of false history and distortions of fact are not so easily healed.
American soldiers are performing exemplary work. Ask Muslims on the street in Iraq. They will plead that we stay until the entire nation and the region is secure from the threat of the kind of anti-western hatred Marcus has confused with Muslim "patriotism."
— John Gentry, Ventura
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