Yes, it is imaginative, since it accurately has almost nothing to do with the message of the letter she was attempting to respond to. She notes she was responding “to the letter entitled “Dangerous McCain.” That was my letter of the week before.

My message stands.

To strongly assert that I “seem to love the U.N., Russia and China ” could be a joke, but it is absurd and ludicrous. I was clearly expressing no approval or disapproval of any of the three.

I was simply and clearly indicating that another warmonger, Sen. John McCain, was favoring American positions that would irritate, anger and provoke at least negative feelings toward our country.

Nor was I defending “governments who are the biggest violators in the world” as Ms. Runyan claimed.

I feel sympathy for Ms. Runyan for being stuck with her convoluted, no-think to be “sickened when I read communistic dialog such as was printed (March 20)” as she put it.

Apparently, some are so embedded with their frozen inability to understand the written or spoken word that they can’t.

In our time as youngsters we believed and often noted that “self-praise stinks.” Obviously, that age has disappeared. Ms. Runyan and 99 percent of our politicians continually shout out that “our country is the greatest” and tell us how good and perfect we are while failing to see that we can make our country as good as it could be if we were to see, know and understand all of it fairly and realistically.

The United Nations cannot be all that we would like it to be, but I am sorry that she has said that she would “agree with any policy that give the U.N. the boot.”

She and many others have sadly not known or recognized that the U.N. has prevented war and chaos on many occasions over the years.

We can never even guess how many lives have been saved, how much chaos and property loss that was prevented.

It is sad that those examples are not reported.

 Had the Bush-Cheney-McCain warmongers been willing to listen to the U.N.’s intelligence (and lacking of weapons mass destruction), we would not have been involved in the Iraqi War disaster.

I agree with Runyan that “if you want to continue to live free, you better vote with your eyes wide open,” but you also must be open to being well-informed and willing and able to use an unfrozen mind that is able to think.