Keith Burgess-Jackson, J.D., Ph.D.

To the Editor:

While elated over the killing of Osama bin Laden, I can’t help observing that his death would likely have occurred years earlier if the Bush administration hadn’t diverted military and intelligence resources from seeking to capture or kill him to initiating the senseless war in Iraq, which did not pose the danger to us that Bin Laden did.

DAN HARRISON
Briarcliff Manor, N.Y., May 3, 2011

Note from KBJ: According to the letter writer, this nation cannot walk and chew gum at the same time.