Things I learned while growing up: 1. If someone hits you, don’t just hit them back. It usually makes things worse. 2. Someone is innocent until proven guilty. 3. Don’t do something to someone else unless you’re willing to have them do it to you.

If Bill Clinton, government “representatives,” and many people living in this country learned these things too, they have forgotten them lately.

Without any due process or opportunities for defense, we have declared certain Middle Eastern people “guilty” of bombings in Kenya and Tanzania. We have attacked by sending missiles into Sudan and Afghanistan in revenge for what we claim is their crime, risking an escalation of the violence and the deaths of many more innocent people. We have violated the security of two other countries and killed or injured innocent people or, at worst, those following someone else’s orders. Would we in the United States ever stand for such a raid? Absolutely not!

If we want to end terrorism, we have to understand why people commit acts of terrorism and eliminate the reasons (in this case, U.S. exploitation of other countries’ resources and economies) for their desperate and destructive acts.

Responding to terrorism with terrorism does not end terrorism. Larry Dansinger Monroe

Are we really supposed to believe the “intelligence community” had no information regarding the whereabouts of the terrorist training camp in Afghanistan or the “chemical weapons factory” in Sudan when our facilities were bombed in 1995 and 1996? That there was no “signature” left on those bombings which indicated who was behind them? That this “miraculous” disclosure only came in the last 13 days — from one informant?

My cup of incredulity runneth over. The attempt to put another one over on us is one too many, it’s an insult to our intelligence. I am neither an anarchist nor an activist, however, my dismay and disappointment with what I feel is yet another example of Clinton’s frailties, flaws and foibles has far exceeded previous levels. Enough is enough. Susanna G. Bennet Bangor