Letters to the Editor
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Brulette and chickens coming home to roost
I don't get why that comment is insensitive to the innocent lives lost on 9/11. That is the crux of what Wright was saying. In my own words here, US foreign policy has been the bane of many innocent lives lost abroad, whether by direct action or by proxy wars. Take US FP in the Phillipines with Ferdinand Marcos, in Chile with Augusto Pinochet, in Iran with the Shah, in Nicaragua with Samoza, in South Africa with the evil agents of apartheid, most of Latin America where the US armed right wing death squads to wipe out any dissent. Many of these people were innocent too.
This does not take away the hurt of families who lost their loved ones in 9/11, but brought home the sensitivity of how people in other countries have suffered in the same way because to ruthless US foreign policy.