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# You might just be uninformed
- URL: https://www.smdp.com/you-might-just-be-uninformed-editor/
- Published: 2006-04-14T15:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-23T17:34:54.000Z
- Author: Guest Author
- Tags: Opinion, Santa Monica, #archive-import, Homeless

*By David MacCormick Santa Monica*

This is in response to a guest commentary by Jeff Sklar (SMDP, April 8, page 5). Sklar, pull your uninformed head out of the sand! Your Republican-bashing guest commentary is both offensive and insulting to all Americans. What made you such a hateful, angry mixed up person and so confused on the issues?

Republicans and all Americans come in many varieties and religions. We are not a hateful nation or political party. Jesus loves us all including homosexuals, the homeless and yes, even Hillary Clinton. Maybe it’s Buddha, Mohammed or Krishna who loves us. Perhaps no one loves us. Whatever the case, America is a republic with ideals of liberty and justice for all, not forced beliefs.

Saddam Hussein was never a good guy. He was a despot who slaughtered over 400,000 of his own people. Iraq’s first major attack on Americans in the 1980’s was in the Persian Gulf with the unprovoked bombing of the USS Stark killing 37 Americans.

Have any idea who initiated the Cuba Trade ban Mr. Sklar? It was President Kennedy in 1962\. Was this Commander-in-Chief a Republican? I think not. Kennedy had the support of the American public. Republicans and Democrats alike. Cuba’s economic woes are the result of Castro’s command economy regime that prohibits private enterprise and ownership of property, not the result of the ongoing U.S. trade embargo.

Our highest national priority is not enforcing UN sanctions, Sklar. Every year billions and billions of dollars in foreign aid is given to dozens of countries that hate and vote against the United States 75 percent of the time. Perhaps it’s time to re-evaluate our UN position and give the billions in tax savings back to the American workers.

OK, Sklar, in the interest of freedom, let’s not regulate abortion. Leave it to back room coat-hangar wielding medical quacks in the interest of free market conduct. Furthermore, let’s not regulate personal drug use, striving to gain better parenting skills and motivate youth achievement through their use. A brilliant idea for our future.

Military morale? In the years since 9-11, President Bush has liberated two countries, crushed the Taliban, crippled al-Qaida, put nuclear inspectors in hostile countries and captured terrorists. Our Commander-in-Chief is doing a great job and military morale is high.

Exactly what branch of the armed services did you defend our freedoms with? We are fighting a war with Muslim terrorists. If we can’t stop them, how could anyone else? If we lose this war, our production, income, exports and way of life will vanish. Who would trade with us if Muslim extremists threatened them? The extremists know what is riding on this war and therefore are completely committed to winning at any cost. We better know it too and be likewise committed.

Remember, the Muslim terrorists stated goal is to kill all infidels. That translates to all non-Muslims, not just in the United States. The seriousness of this enemy we are fighting can never be taken lightly. They’re an enemy who cut off hands, cut out tongues and murdered their own people for opposing Hussein. They’re an enemy who burned our citizens, dragging American charred corpses through the streets of Iraq and beheading hostages.

Civil rights have to be given up temporarily, or we face the prospect of losing all of them permanently. We gave up plenty of them in World War II and restored them after victory, adding many more. Blame yourself for blithely assuming we can maintain our political correctness and civil rights during this conflict. Clean, lawful and honorable are words that do not apply to war. Get them out of your head.

Yes, Sklar, we have committed lives and wealth to this war. Tell FDNY and WTC survivors how our war is based on lies, greed and stupidity. More importantly, tell me exactly how the most horrific attack on America by Muslim extremists committed to killing all infidels will lead to peaceful resolution if left unanswered.

FDR led us into World War II, yet Germany never attacked us. Japan did. 450,000 Americans died. Truman finished that war and started the one in Korea. 55,000 Americans died. North Korea never attacked us. John F. Kennedy started the Vietnam conflict and Johnson turned it into a disaster with 58,000 American lives lost. Clinton involved the US with Bosnia. Were these Commander-in-Chiefs Republican? I think not.

Whether Democrat or Republican, conservative or liberal, the factions in our great nation will unite. It is our future at stake and ours to preserve. We must do this for ourselves, our children, our country and the world. God bless America and bless our servicemen and women fighting to protect our freedoms and the right to pray and worship God and believe whatever we want. Sklar, God bless you too.

*Originally published in the Santa Monica Daily Press print edition on April 14, 2006.* [Read the original PDF.](https://s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/smdp%5Fbackissues/041406.pdf?ref=smdp.com)