In response to your letter, Mr. Shae, I’m not sure whether you and the editor (judging by the title given my letter) were simply trying to point out a particular of my letter from April 19, or whether you completely missed the main idea.

I wish now that I would have excluded the last paragraph, or at least reworded it and ended the letter restating the main idea which is how “we can support NATO as well as policy change to avoid being hypocritical.” So, I do recognize what a mistake it was to present it like that.

However, if you are just attacking my so-called “fascist-elitist” views, I have to wonder how you could be so blind as to miss the main idea?

That is what should be commented on. Nowhere in your response did you comment on the “real” letter. Of the MANY people I asked to examine it, including strangers and my English teacher, not one thought it could be called fascist-elitism.

In regard to what you did say, I never implied that only veterans had rights to opinions because they were willing to die. I said (or meant to say) that you have to stick up for what is right and just, even if it means your life.

Is it right that only veterans stick up for their country? This doesn’t mean you have to join; just know in your heart that you would die for a just cause if it needed you to.

Our country does fight to protect our own freedoms, but along with a few others, it also rightly fights against other inhumane actions, oppression and worldly evils. If we didn’t, we could be called fascist elitists because we try to influence and promote democracy throughout the world. Obviously Russia is really happy with their new democracy.

I ask again that you focus your thoughts on what’s really on the table here instead of a small, nearly irrelevant point at the end of my views. I hope I have cleared things up so everyone can see what I was really trying to say. I should’ve realized that what’s at the end of an article is what people tend to focus on. Sadly enough though, people do tend to see only a small part of the “big picture.”

Jeremy Anhalt

Freshman

Earth science