This letter is associated with the following article:
Letters
Tuesday, April 24, 2007 12:00 AM

Right message, wrong response

Tim Grieve

Read other letters about this article

  • Tuesday, April 24, 2007 10:41 AM

    "...aid and comfort to the enemy."

    Wouldn't that be total 5 year incompetence by the opposition, even to the point of getting the local populace to oppose the terrorist?

    Wouldn't that be coming in to a peaceful population and watching it devolve into civil war?

    Wouldn't that be sending untrained, unarmored troops, that speak no more than a few unintelligible phrases in the local dialect, into an area where the main idea is to win the hearts of minds of the locals?

    Some fool politicians two continents and an ocean away? Who cares?

    —swift_goat_pet_for_truth Read swift_goat_pet_for_truth's other letters

    Flag
Read other letters about this article

Most Active Letters Threads

522

The crazy, irrational beliefs of Muslims

Tom Friedman explains the real problem: stupid Muslims think the U.S. is about war and aggression.
Glenn Greenwald Read article
426

A key British official reminds us of the forgotten anthrax attack

A vast array of establishment and expert sources do not believe this episode was really resolved.
Glenn Greenwald Read article
414

The face of rotted Washington

Evan Bayh demands more debt-financed war - fought by others - while boasting that he's a stern "deficit hawk."
Glenn Greenwald Read article
210

Is Obama's civil liberties record understandable?

Was it unreasonable to expect him to adhere to his commitments regarding the Constitution?
Glenn Greenwald Read article
185

Bigotry wins in Switzerland

By voting to ban the construction of minarets, Switzerland apes the most extreme intolerance in the Muslim world
By Juan Cole Read article

View all »

Letters Help

Currently in Salon