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majority of its citizens for the troops and the action in the Gulf could seem “plethoric” only to those familiar to constructs, but not to reality.
It is doubtful that Mr. Putnam has dwelt often on the perilous life small countries lead, when in geographic proximity of lands governed by murderous thugs. (To apply the word “bully” to Saddam Hussein is like calling bubonic plague a mild case of chilblains.)
Some of us know the horrors of occupation and the wrenching away of flight, the anxieties of the refugees facing the imposed silence of those “who stayed behind,” the tales of torture of the few who escaped.
This is true of Kuwait today and of several countries in Europe during World War II.
“Thou shalt not kill” is a message heard by moral men, but what should be done with those who do not heed this message. . .with the killers? Hitler and Saddam Hussein are like malignant growths that have to be surgically excised.
What Barbara Tuchman wrote about war - that it is “the unfolding of miscalculations” is often true but not always. Not in Marathon in 490 B.C., when the Athenians defeated the Persian Army - and not now in Operation Desert Storm.
FRANCINE D. NADLER
Washington
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