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<div>A great letter from a friend of mine down south.</div><div>Ralph</div><div><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 13.0px 0.0px; line-height: 15.0px"><font face="Geneva" size="4" style="font: 13.0px Geneva"><br> <a href="http://www.idahostatesman.com/2010/08/20/1308820/letters-to-the-editor.html"><font face="Verdana" size="4" color="#0f66b0" style="font: 13.0px Verdana; color: #0f66b0"><u>http://www.idahostatesman.com/2010/08/20/1308820/letters-to-the-editor.html</u></font></a><br> <br> </font><font face="Verdana" size="2" color="#cccccc" style="font: 10.0px Verdana; color: #cccccc">News > Opinion > Letters to the Editor</font><font face="Verdana" size="2" style="font: 10.0px Verdana"><br> </font><font face="Georgia" size="6" color="#1c4061" style="font: 24.0px Georgia; color: #1c4061">Letters to the editor</font><font face="Georgia" size="6" style="font: 24.0px Georgia"><br> </font><font face="Verdana" size="2" color="#999999" style="font: 10.0px Verdana; color: #999999"> - Idaho Statesman</font><font face="Verdana" size="2" style="font: 10.0px Verdana"><br> </font><font face="Verdana" size="2" color="#999999" style="font: 10.0px Verdana; color: #999999">Published: 08/20/10</font><font face="Verdana" size="2" style="font: 10.0px Verdana"><br> <br> </font><font face="Helvetica" size="5" style="font: 16.0px Helvetica"><br> </font><font face="Helvetica" size="5" color="#333333" style="font: 16.0px Helvetica; color: #333333">POLITICS</font><font face="Helvetica" size="5" style="font: 16.0px Helvetica"><br> <br> </font><font face="Helvetica" size="5" color="#333333" style="font: 16.0px Helvetica; color: #333333"><b>A plot to destroy America would look like this ...</b></font><font face="Helvetica" size="5" style="font: 16.0px Helvetica"><b><br> <br> </b></font><font face="Helvetica" size="5" color="#333333" style="font: 16.0px Helvetica; color: #333333">What if the 10 Russian spies weren't the only enemy agents to infiltrate the United States? What if some other alien power has planted a fifth column of pretend Americans to destroy America from within?</font><font face="Helvetica" size="5" style="font: 16.0px Helvetica"><br> <br> </font><font face="Helvetica" size="5" color="#333333" style="font: 16.0px Helvetica; color: #333333">How could these hypothetical terrorists undermine the most powerful nation on Earth?</font><font face="Helvetica" size="5" style="font: 16.0px Helvetica"><br> <br> </font><font face="Helvetica" size="5" color="#333333" style="font: 16.0px Helvetica; color: #333333">Given America's economic strength, one tactic for destroying America would be to bankrupt the country with massive federal deficits. The easiest way to accomplish this would be to cut the taxes on the rich without cutting the budget.</font><font face="Helvetica" size="5" style="font: 16.0px Helvetica"><br> <br> </font><font face="Helvetica" size="5" color="#333333" style="font: 16.0px Helvetica; color: #333333">Given America's military strength, one enemy tactic would be to exhaust the military by engaging in never-ending wars without providing sufficient personnel (draft) and equipment (no money because of the tax cuts for the rich).</font><font face="Helvetica" size="5" style="font: 16.0px Helvetica"><br> <br> </font><font face="Helvetica" size="5" color="#333333" style="font: 16.0px Helvetica; color: #333333">Given America's traditional unity, one destructive tactic would be to divide Americans over inconsequential issues such as gay marriage, abortion and religion.</font><font face="Helvetica" size="5" style="font: 16.0px Helvetica"><br> <br> </font><font face="Helvetica" size="5" color="#333333" style="font: 16.0px Helvetica; color: #333333">Given America's lead in science, one ruinous tactic would be to destroy America's public educational system by teaching creationism, denying global-warming science and establishing religious schools masquerading as charter schools.</font><font face="Helvetica" size="5" style="font: 16.0px Helvetica"><br> <br> </font><font face="Helvetica" size="5" color="#333333" style="font: 16.0px Helvetica; color: #333333">If this sounds like a certain political party and their tea-based shock troops, maybe you should vote them out of office before they destroy America completely.</font><font face="Helvetica" size="5" style="font: 16.0px Helvetica"><br> <br> </font><font face="Helvetica" size="5" color="#333333" style="font: 16.0px Helvetica; color: #333333">GARY L. BENNETT, Emmett</font></p></div></body></html>