Letter: It’s not Reid who’s playing politics with the war
Thursday, May 3, 2007 | 7:23 a.m.
I concur with Joyce Segal's May 2 letter to the editor, "What if Reid is right and this war is lost?" and I would like to add that Sen. Harry Reid is not simply playing politics.
Sen. Reid does have sound reasons for his claims, including the voices of other experts and an independent commission's report that had advocated alternative approaches to how we're dealing with Iraq. I find it odd that the Bush administration has never addressed that report or even mentioned ways of implementing at least some of its recommendations.
Indeed, the moment that members of Congress began to try to implement some of it, they were harshly criticized. When our young people are being killed so needlessly, would it really be so hard to at least try some additional measures?
For that matter, it seems to me that every war the United States has ever fought also included intense peace negotiation processes. Where is that in this current conflict? Should we not at least put as much effort into peace talks as we put into military action? That's hardly a pacifist stance, unless one is simply getting off on being at war for the sake of being at war.
Timothy James, Las Vegas
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