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America is aghast over Russian meddling in our 2016 election, and rightfully so. But to be sincere, consistent and comprehensive, we should condemn the concept, and censure any country’s interference in any other country’s governmental processes, including our own.

If America’s politicians, press and populace put the same kind of anti-interference energy into our own foreign meddling (as we have in Russia’s involvement in our 2016 campaign) and condemned our own intrusions, including spying, meddling, fomenting and arming resisters, staging coups, assassinations, wars and regime changes, our two-plus years of constant, repetitious outrage over Russia’s “attack” on our election would be more appropriate in the universe.

Since the 1960s, the U. S. secured the results it wanted in Chile, Guatemala, Haiti, Panama, Iran, Lebanon, Kenya, Serbia, Libya, Ukraine and many dozens more.

This aspect of our foreign policy has been accepted and championed for generations, despite being far more devastating than Russia’s “attack” on our country’s election process.

Caroll Han

Makiki

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