Editor:
Some people like Gaby Dolphin just won’t give it up! I’m referring to her proposal for something like a Mueller report for Dummies to be serialized in the Alameda Sun (“Mueller Report Needs Translating,” June 13). This obsession is a bit much, and is preventing our country from dealing with crucial matters, like fixing an economy that has serious problems and negotiating critical arms control with the Russians.

I also think we should reflect on the fact, before we go charging further down the road toward confrontation with a nuclear power, that the U.S. has made a practice of major interference in other countries’ elections for decades, countries such as Ukraine, Italy, Chile and the Phillippines, which even the Washington Post and other press have asserted.

Former CIA Director James Woolsey admitted in a Fox TV interview in 2018 that the U.S. does intervene in elections, “but only for a very good cause, in the interests of democracy.” 

And what about Russia? The U.S. massively intervened to promote the reelection of Boris Yeltsin in 1996, while U.S. hedge funds were making a killing off the economic free-for-all going on there. One reason there is so much hatred of Vladimir Putin today in the West is because he began the process of reining in the oligarchs tied to the Western financier parasites.

So, I say we should get off the high horse and pursue a policy of talking with the Russians. Even if you don’t like Donald Trump, it’s critical to talk. It’s also better if the President doesn’t have to try to look tough to appease the people back home.