Bombs were a dud

Please be more careful in what you allow to be printed in your paper. I refer to Gary Crooks’ “Smart Bombs” (May 30).

I find it disturbing that he finds “as much to loathe as to like about” either business or government. This, after he has just taken business to task on its performance, not only in the Gulf, but in manufacturing and investment banking.

I feel that I must challenge anyone who accepts all the benefits of our glorious government and yet speaks about loathing it almost in the same breath.

Crooks should be ashamed to admit that he accepts the magnificent privilege of a free press, all the while whining about “loathing government.”

Speaking of “personal responsibility,” he should try some and use his pen to help both business and government do a better job. Our system is messy, fraught with weaknesses at the corporate level, administrative level and elsewhere, but he can’t afford to sit on the sidelines “auditing” our system.

Mr. Crooks, if you loathe government, get off the sidelines and help fix it.

Wallace Foster

Colville