Communist Phobia
Lucy Komisar’s Column Left of Jan. 16 (“U.S. Put Him In, Now Get Mobutu Out”) outlines an excellent example of how other people, if not ourselves, suffer the ruinous costs of our long-running case of Commie-phobia. At fever pitch, our malady long since corrupted the CIA, and holds us helpless in the hands of Miami’s Cuban community in a fruitless (and now comic) crusade to unseat Castro in Havana.
The cure, which we continue to reject for no constructive reason, is to accept the hand of Castro so often offered in the past, and learn to live with the fact that some people in this world actually prefer to live in a socialist society.
JULIAN E. MERRIS JR.
Ventura
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