To the editor:

Sue Hess (Public Forum, Nov. 14) states that, during the Clinton years, we were in good standing with the United Nations and the world courts and that there was no shoot-first invasion of oil rich countries.

First, Clinton was too busy with Monica to turn his attention to the events of the world. He could have been served up a silver platter of bin Laden on three separate occasions but didn’t bother. Secondly, he did “attack” an aspirin factory in order to get our attention away from “the Monica hearings.”

Thirdly, the United Nations and the world courts are highly socialist entities that are in direct contrast to everything we the United States stand for. The French, Russians and Germans naturally didn’t want to go to war with us; they had too much money going into Iraq or more precisely Hussein’s pocket. Kofi Annan had in the past stated that Hussein was “someone he could deal with.”

Thank God this current president didn’t sign our rights and sovereignties over to the World Court. If we were to be involved with them, our soldiers could be tried for war crimes.

Our president has taken the correct steps to prevent an imminent threat.

We have taken the war to the terrorists by being in Iraq, but I suppose we could leave there and have them bring the war to us again, say in Lawrence, Kansas.

I end with the motto of the former Strategic Air Command: “Peace through strength.”

Robert M. Tyler,

Ozawkie