Sir, - Ms Eda Smyth (October 2nd), asks: "If you create the terrorist, are you not at least as guilty?" By this, I assume she is implicating United States foreign policy.
While I do not stand behind all of my country's past actions, most especially the bombing of Serbia on behalf of Bin Laden-backed KLA Albanian jihadists, it is way out of line to blame the U.S. for Islamist terrorism.
By this thinking, also culpable are: India, Israel, Afghanistan, Algeria, Sudan, Nigeria, Indonesia, Phillipines, Chechnya, Macedonia, Lebanon, Syria, Iran, Iraq, Chad, Egypt, and even China. I may have missed a few, but you get the idea. - Yours, etc.,
Maura Hilburn, Germantown, Maryland.