Readers respond to Question of the Week: Why terror attacks from within U.S.?

Terror attacks within

The only commonalities I see from the two misguided military men committing suicidal attacks in New Orleans and Las Vegas are twofold. One, neither had any concern whatsoever about the innocent people they might kill or injure by their violent acts. None of the innocent victims had anything to do with the implied causes behind the perpetrators’ actions. Two, if their intent was to rally citizens to their respective causes, they failed miserably.

If anything, the New Orleans incident strengthened U.S. resolve to obliterate Middle East terrorist groups advocating such acts. So how did that advance the ISIS cause? The Las Vegas bombing was allegedly a “wake-up call” message about U.S. leadership weakness. Didn’t the U.S. people elect Trump to replace a failed leadership? Blowing up a Tesla pickup did nothing to promote better leadership. Violent acts in the name of some cause do nothing but turn people against that cause, whether it is breaking into the U.S. Capitol, rioting in a city or performing a terrorist act.

— Oliver Watson, Orange

Home-grown terror

Our military needs strong leadership. The Biden administration has failed them. Instead of giving our soldiers the confidence, knowledge and equipment to be the best fighting force in the world, they prioritize DEI. They publicly chastise our ally Israel for retaliating on Hamas after they slaughtered thousands of people and hold Americans hostage. With this type of “leadership” along with allowing unvetted immigrants from places that hate the U.S. to cross our border, the message of our enemies is bound to infect some who are suffering from mental illness.

— Pete Burkhart, Woodland Hills

Terror in the U.S.

Many have shared their opinion of these events because of the many injustices we are seeing today both economically and socially. The fact that these acts of terror were by servicemen gives insight to us on what the military service can do to soldiers and how their mental health is gravely affected. As a nation we need to look further into why is it that soldiers struggle mentally coming out of service, especially now as we see that the most patriotic soldiers aren’t OK.

— Giselle Alvarado, Pomona