I grew up with the story of Chicken Little, the bird-brained critter who decided the sky was falling because an acorn fell on her head.

The current administration seems to have trained at the Chicken Little School of knee-jerk reactions.

We are deep in a war in Iraq which sure feels like deja vu to me. (Yes, I do remember Vietnam.) The other night the president said we must stop looking at all the violence and bloodshed and death in order to see how successful we are there. He also is now disclaiming the “acorn” of a connection between Saddam Hussein and Osama bin Laden. (Nope, never said it.)

The scariest to me is the newest acorn: Iran is suddenly our most terrifying enemy. Beat the drums and let’s start attacking Iran now, the sky might be falling down.

I believe that right now our most terrifying enemy is the blind acceptance that we must attack Muslim countries to keep terrorists at bay. In the last three years, we have given terrorists thousands of reasons to wish to continue trying to destroy us. The current administration is using fear to manipulate this country into allowing Iraq to continue endlessly, a possible new “conflict” with Iran, as well as serious erosion of civil rights here at home.

Chicken Little was wrong.

I believe this administration is, also.

Joanne Dunlap, Rangeley