Editor,
This letter is in response to Wednesday’s letter “Muslims should fight oppression with force.”
As I read this hate-filled letter, I began to wonder what oppression, exactly, Muhajir Romero was referring to. Perhaps it was the Taliban in Afghanistan, whose oppression of women and persecution of educated intellectuals was reprehensible, or Saddam Hussein, who threatened and invaded neighboring countries and deployed poison gas against his own people.
Oh, wait, no, neither of these regimes exists today, thanks to the efforts of the American military.
While the missions in Afghanistan and Iraq were to achieve ends favorable to the American people, the relief of the suffering of millions of people was among the foremost goals. The wish was to establish working democracies that were at least semi-favorable towards the West.
I am hardly Islamophobic, and have considered many Muslims my friends. This is not a tirade against the Muslim people but rather their tactics. During World War II, America spent its own blood, sweat, tears and treasure to free European countries from Nazi terror, and then spent its own treasure again to rebuild them. Why would the Middle East expect any different? It is the Muslim fighters who are prolonging the war, the suffering, the deaths, not America.
Amber West
UNM student
