Letter: President cannot be blamed for North Korea

Friday, Feb. 18, 2005 | 8:52 a.m.

I have subscribed to your paper for about 14 years and have always thought it was well published. For some time, however, I have noticed that the Sun's editorial cartoonist, Mike Smith, has been more and more into "Bush Bashing." I have mixed opinions about President Bush but I do think he does some things well. It appears Mr. Smith does not think he does anything well.

Smith's Feb. 14 cartoon was so out of line that it makes me wonder how much he knows about the subject with which he was dealing. It was President Clinton and his secretary of state, Madeleine Albright, who gave North Korea the technical support for development of nuclear power. When North Korea would not comply with the terms of the agreement for inspections, that same president would do nothing about it.

The nations of China and Japan should also be responsible for helping with this problem. The comment in the cartoon about our "distracted president" being at fault for the problem in North Korea is not good journalism at all!

PETER BURCHETTE

archive