On Nov. 20, a letter by Feyzi Inanc titled: “The sickness of the twentieth century,” appeared in the Daily as a response to my letter about the “Media’s double standards.”

First of all, Feyzi Inanc started talking about terrorism, a subject different from what I had written about: the media.

Then he went on to make a ridiculous and unacceptable attempt to link my arguments to “global terrorism” in an unethical way; he tried to portray me as a supporter of terrorism, something as disgusting as any other form of violence.

Furthermore, he insulted all Americans by trying to imply that just because I am American, I can’t possibly know what is going on in the world, and I make “misinformed statements.”

But what puzzled me the most was all the rhetoric he used to convince us of something we already know: Ocalan and the PKK are terrorists.

Feyzi Inanc, perhaps blind by his rhetoric, missed or misunderstood the very point of my article.

All the graphic terror he describes, “babies being gunned down before they could even see their first birthdays … so many families wiped out from existence …” all this, the more than 30,000 victims of this civil war, would have been avoided if the media chose to report and show this terror to the world, just as in Kosovo; the U.S. and the international community would have been pressured to intervene and stop the bloodshed in Southeastern Turkey.

Bob Alexander

Alumnus