U.S. has nothing to apologize for
I myself find it disturbing how a presidential candidate can go around the world apologizing for the actions of the United States when there is nothing to apologize for.
For instance, Sen. Barack Obama goes to Berlin, of all places, and speaks about the misgivings of our country, while if not for the sacrifices of the U.S.A., Berlin would be a pile of rubble, as the rest of Europe would be as well. And he spoke of "the wall coming down'' as if it fell down by itself when it came down because of President Regan's hard-line diplomacy with the required tough talk and policy and not apologetic back-peddling.
The United States has literally ''saved the world'' on no less than two separate occasions, and we have nothing to apologize to anyone for, especially Europe of all places. It's almost as if he wants to tell the world that we're all sorry for being the powerful country that we are and need to get out of the way of the rest of the world as if we have our boots on the throats of every other country on the globe.
Apparently, Sen. Obama is just too youthful and inexperienced to realize that things that have happened in the past happened for a reason, and good reasons, too.
But he has the media at his disposal as well, and I find it amusing that almost all of them failed to mention that in Berlin where he drew such a crowd that before he appeared there were a free rock concert there where two of Europe's most popular bands performed and there was free beer and bratwursts given to the crowd. I wonder just who all of them actually came to see?
Mark Hicks
Huntington
Our ingenuity will fix the economy
It's demoralizing to come to terms with our diminishing existence in America and being hostage to runaway fuel prices.
Recently, I was in Florida and saw empty highways that previously had been gridlocked. I wish I had answers to the hard questions we face in our uncertain future.
Now that I look back on it, it seems like a deliberate effort of the Bush administration to crash our economy. Did they decide at some point that our economy wasn't worth saving? I remember seeing Dick Cheney presiding over the Senate with this kind of informed grin on his face like a guy who's betting on a fixed horse race. Somehow, it seems like the truly evil gain control and wind up with all the cards in their favor.
I think of some of the insurmountable problems we have overcome in years past, such as coming up with a fission weapon just in time to save our soldiers in the Pacific. Or putting men on the moon almost 40 years ago. Or bringing about the end of the Cold War and freeing Eastern Europe. The constant parade of technological breakthroughs we have achieved.
It's hard to know where we can go from here or what cards are left in our hand, but I hope it's the one card that's always saved us in the past -- the wild card of Yankee ingenuity -- so I'm betting that someone will figure it out, and one day soon hydrogen cars will cram the highways, cleaning the air as they go.
Charles W. Carroll
Huntington
Make smarter, healthier choices
I am in a summer nursing program for community-based practice to finish my bachelor's education. We have been investigating Healthy People 2010. Our chosen objective is nutrition and obesity.
I am sad to say that the counties that we investigated are less than perfect. I am writing to say that it is very sad that the No. 1 leading county in obesity, Logan, has earned the title of "Sweetest Wal-Mart on Earth" for leading Little Debbie sales. This is so disheartening knowing that these are contributing to the obesity, diabetes and cardiovascular disease for West Virginia.
Step up, West Virginia. Choose healthier options. Our state is quickly climbing to the top for obesity, thus creating major chronic illnesses. As a nurse in the dialysis industry, I am all too familiar with the outcomes of diabetes leading to kidney disease and the eventual need for dialysis.
Rachel Caldwell
Fort Gay
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