U.S. President Barack Obama addresses the country from the Oval Office on Dec. 6 in Washington, DC. The President addressed the terrorism threat to the U.S. and the recent attack in San Bernardino, Calif. (Saul Loeb-Pool, Getty Images)
Re: “Obama tries to ease public’s anxiety over terrorism,” Dec. 7 news story.
I was encouraged by President Obama’s Sunday night address that perhaps there is hope we might not overreact to events overseas and in our own country.
In our history, hotheaded overreaction has led to internment of Japanese-American citizens during World War II, the Joseph McCarthy-led Red Scare in the early 1950s and more recently, a wrong-headed invasion of Iraq — a country that had neither weapons of mass destruction nor an alQaeda presence, until we invaded.
The president is correct that deploying a significant ground troop presence in Syria and Iraq or our country turning to hatred and fear as a guiding light for our decisions will simply be a recruiting poster for young Muslims, here and abroad.
John W. Thomas, Fort Collins
This letter was published in the Dec. 8 edition.
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