Mideast Hijacking

Here we go again!

More flag-draped coffins. More laudable words. More warnings that “our patience is not without limits.”

“But there is just nothing we can do.” How many hundreds of times have you heard that one?

We can inform the Ayatollah Khomeini in Iran that if every American held throughout the Middle East is not freed unharmed by a certain date we will start bombing military targets in Iran. No formal declaration of war. Let’s play by their rules; that’s the way its done now. If they are not released by that date, we bomb government buildings, etc.

This, ladies and gentlemen, is only the beginning. The beginning of something called “nuclear blackmail.” There is absolutely no doubt in my mind that the butchers in the Kremlin are behind every act of outrage committed against every American in the Middle East. How many times have you heard the comment, “We can’t do this or we can’t do that for fear of Russian intervention”? That key word is fear. They are “testing us” constantly, and we continue to back up.

I had nothing but contempt for the lack of “guts” in the Carter Administration. Ronald Reagan has had my ballot every time he has run for anything. At this point I frankly wonder why I bothered.

When was the last time you ever heard of a Russian being molested anyplace in the world?

CHET HILL

Arroyo Grande