OPINION:
After reading “Islamic State using leaked Snowden info to evade U.S. intelligence” (Web, Sept. 4), I couldn’t help but speculate that the real value of Edward Snowden’s espionage is that President Obama’s university transcripts, which have never been publicly released and may have been stored on an NSA database that Mr. Snowden stole, are now common knowledge throughout the Islamic world.
For many years, Mr. Obama has refused to release his university transcripts. Now, because of Mr. Snowden’s successful spy operation, those concealed university transcripts may be common knowledge to every terrorist in the Islamic world. Islamic terrorists around the globe may have found new hope that Allah doesn’t need smart people to ruin civilization. Perhaps all that is needed is a U.S. leader who ignores them because he is too busy golfing.
I find it ironic that people such as Mr. Obama, who fiendishly wants to transform and denigrate America for being an “unjust” nation, criticize our Constitution as an old, rigid document created by a bunch of white slave owners. Yet these same “reformers” are addicted to the game of golf, itself the invention of rich white men, and a game whose rigid rules never change.
I haven’t heard Mr. Obama renouncing the game of golf for having been created by a bunch of rich white men whose strict rules keep the poorer golfer from enjoying the riches of a low score on the PGA Tour. I also hear that the borders surrounding each golf course and every golf hole are strictly enforced.
MATTHEW R. POWENSKI
Buffalo, N.Y.
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