Letter: U.S. bungles Middle East policy

I’m writing to express concern for our behavior in the Middle East, and Sen. Maria Cantwell’s association with the letter co-authored by Sens. Menendez and Graham. This letter blames Iran exclusively for conditions in the Middle East, ignoring the 74 years of bungling intrusion on America’s part since my birth:

• Supporting the creation of Israel on land appropriated from the then-occupants without their consent, and based on colonial occupation by the British: a colonialist concept we ourselves overthrew in 1776.

• Overthrowing the elected government of Iran in 1953, installing the repressive dictatorship of the Shah, which bred the current Islamic Republic.

• Blind acceptance of the Saudi family’s absolute rule over their nation, which fostered the debased teaching of Islam (Wahhabism) that nurtured the terrorist mentality leading to 9/11, and has retarded Saudi human rights for decades.

• Supporting multiple repressive regimes, now lauded for signing the Abraham Accords.

• Sponsoring dictator Saddam Hussein, who brutalized his own people and fought a war with Iran using chemical weapons.

• Siding with murderous thug Mohammed bin Salman in his brutal assault on the people of Yemen.