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Trump spurs terrorism

My son and daughter-in-law instruct farmers worldwide in sustainable agriculture. They’ve worked in Muslim countries without incident for over 10 years. But now they fear for their safety if Donald Trump is elected president. Even before Trump was the presumptive Republican nominee, ISIS recruited terrorists using videos featuring Trump’s call to ban Muslims from the U.S. And if elected, terrorist recruitment featuring his bigotry will be even more effective.

Such Trump-inspired terrorist recruitment tactics can be just as effective inside as outside the U.S. Radicalization can occur anywhere, and U.S. residents are closest to Trump’s bigotry.

Germany has admitted over a million refugees recently and Canada, population one-tenth the U.S., has admitted 25,000 Syrian refugees. Spokane native and longtime U.S. Middle East ambassador Ryan Crocker assures that our “vetting system is strong” and advises accepting 100,000 Syrians (Wall Street Journal, Nov. 11, 2015).

Just preceding Obama’s presidency, Republican leadership, including Cathy McMorris Rodgers, decided for political gain to obstruct every Obama policy, even if previously Republican proposed (e.g., Obamacare-Mitt Romney; immigration-Ronald Reagan). So Republicans have only themselves to blame for congressional dysfunction that created Trump.

Norm Luther

Spokane

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