This nation has been greatest force for good in all of history

To the editor,

It seems that Scott Cracraft is feeling the need to defend our trash-America-first Leo R. (the nutty professor) Sandy from a letter from Ed Chase a couple of days ago. Scott objects to Ed calling Leo a communist and describing him as evil and America hating. Really though unless one considers communism and America hating bad these appear to be simply descriptively accurate of the professor. As for evil I don't know if he is that but that is best determined in the eye of the beholder.

Let's look at things through a different eye then Scott's. Poor Professor Sandy, just because he cherry picks facts and events to portray the U.S. in the worst possible light and advocates we give over or national sovereignty to a one world, U.N. type, government? Well that doesn't seem very warm and fuzzy feeling toward America now does it? As for communism, that political system historically has an abysmal record in both human rights and economically. Most of its leaders have resorted to dictatorships, mass murders, wars, all of which can rightly be described as evil. Allowing this to be universally true it appears Ed has some basis for his descriptive terms. There is plenty of history from Professor Sandy's writings to uphold these opinions so I can's see where Scott has much cause for righteous outrage.

The question of when was America's glory years is another, eye of the beholder, issue. Progressives might say today with our socialist president spending on unprecedented levels and the national debt at unbelievable heights. Marxism has infiltrated both universities and secondary schools while some predominately Hispanic schools fly the Mexican flag instead of the U.S. flag. Like most conservatives, I don't like these things. Scott criticizes Joe McCarthy and that era then finds fault with everything in between as though that was all there was to our history. Taken as a whole this nation has been the greatest force for good and human rights in all of history. Progressives who love to trash us and usually make excuses for terrorist groups while those groups bomb, murder and seek to kill as many Jews as they can manage does not to my mind represent good. All told even the days of McCarthy were better then then now. We were able to correct the excesses of that time but will we be able to correct the excesses of today and stop the slide into decline our current course is taking us?

Steve Earle

Hill