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# Letter: Reader faults Obama's threat of force against terrorists in Pakistan
- URL: https://www.smdp.com/good-fences-editor/
- Published: 2007-08-13T15:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-24T02:34:00.000Z
- Author: Guest Author
- Tags: Opinion, Santa Monica, #archive-import

*By Frank Muller Santa Monica*

(Re: “Obama tries to mend fences,” August 10) If I sound skeptical with the chilling uncertainty of grappling eye to eye with al-Qaida in both Afghanistan, and now nuclear armed Pakistan, considering that the 19 men at the core of 9/11 were not only led by educated pilots who were for the most part Saudis, but assisted by free wheeling zealots, then presidential candidate Senator Barack Obama saying that he would swap threatening military action to hunt down terrorists if Pakistan’s President Pervez Musharraf doesn’t act, for denying millions and millions of dollars to Pakistan for military aid I am now downright frightened by Obama’s ambition to now use force rather than diplomatic statesmanship, when he has not kept quiet about his refusal to approve attacking Iraq in 2003 since none of the 19 including U.S. educated Osama bin Laden were Iraqis!

Any presidential candidate must realize that the ability to run fast while carrying the ball is not an adequate basis to build trust when running like wrong-way Corrigan towards his own goal-line!

*Originally published in the Santa Monica Daily Press print edition on August 13, 2007.* [Read the original PDF.](https://s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/smdp%5Fbackissues/081307.pdf?ref=smdp.com)