To the Editor:
Contrary to your May 4 editorial “The
Way Out,” I don’t believe that President Obama made a convincing
case last December for sending more troops to Afghanistan.
Far
from it. No matter what the president does or does not do, his record is
forever tarnished by his sending thousands of soldiers to be destroyed
physically, mentally or both for a political purpose in a war that
cannot be won.
Arthur Laurents
New York, May 4, 2010
The writer is the director and playwright.
Note from KBJ: Compare this letter with the vicious attacks made on President George W. Bush after the invasion of Iraq in 2003. Double standard? If so, what accounts for it? Racism? Is President Obama being treated better because of his race? (He's half black.)
Keith Burgess-Jackson, J.D., Ph.D. 