Noriega must go

AN open letter to Jesse Jackson: The world has changed since we both walked behind Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. a quarter-century ago. Still, we share that shining memory and, I suppose, a common allegiance to our country and its people. Beyond that, we differ on many issues. Sadly, I have to say I find your column on Panama not only mean-spirited but riddled with error. Let me point out the most egregious. Do you really think that “democracy is not created at the point of a bayonet”? What did Washington’s brave, beleaguered army carry on their bayonets in 1776, then? What did the GIs splashing ashore

in Normandy and across France into Germany bring, if not democracy? What brought democracy to Japan,

if not bayonets? … You deplore bayonets in Panama? Perhaps you preferred Noriega?

January 1990

The above is Charlton Heston.  His words still apply today.

Though, America and the world has, again, forgotten the truth of those words.