Obama is no 'comforter-in-chief'

Bob Woodward, a native son of Wheaton, brought out a new book on Sept. 27 called "Obama's Wars."

One of the statements of President Obama that he quotes is shocking, showing a callous and defeatist attitude toward the "war on terror." We learn that he believes that "we can absorb another terrorist attack, even another one on the scale of 9/ll."

Woodward reports that Obama takes the defeatist attitude, we can absorb another attack even one that killed 3,000 people, a tragedy he claims had made us "stronger." How sad to think that our president believes that 3.000 families still in mourning, thousands of children growing up without a father or mother, soldiers still bearing the burn wounds they suffered in the Pentagon attack can just be "absorbed" like a sponge and come out stronger and better. What a callous heart he must have.

I think of now 9-year-old Megan Beamer, who was born four months after her father, Todd Beamer, graduate of Wheaton Academy and Wheaton College, died on Flight 93 keeping that plane from crashing into the Capitol or White House. It may be that she and her older brothers will become stronger as they try to "absorb" their loss, but It is hard to think that would be much comfort coming from a man like Obama, who apparently lost no personal friends or family that sad day in 2001 and seems to lack the ability to sympathize.

At least Bill Clinton had the grace to say at the Oklahoma City bombing, "I feel your pain," and was later dubbed the nation's "comforter-in-chief."

Priscilla Weese

Wheaton