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On Nol's
side of issue
To the Editor:
I was glad to see that Nol Putnam responded to the letters taking issue with his expression of dismay at our government’s answer to Saddam Hussein’s violent takeover of Kuwait. I regret that I hadn’t written too and that I failed to call my friend Nol to let him know I was on his side and that I hoped he wouldn’t let a personal attack discourage him.
I’m always opposed to war, and when i| looked as if President Bush would take us to war, I was especially upset because I believed the cost of war in every respect would be both outlandish and unpredictable. (A recent paper reports on the influx of Iraqi refugees into our militarily-occupied part of Iraq: “ ‘It’s clearly more than they expected, because they didn’t expect to have to be dealing with it at all,’ said a U.S. defense official.”) I believed that nothing worthwhile would result from a war and that deplorable consequences would follow. What has happened has not changed my mind about the unacceptability of war as a means to solve problems.
My anxiety about conditions in the Middle East is as high now as it was before and during the principal conflict. Of course the war isn’t over and no one knows when it will be and what its effects will be - although we already know what some of them are for Kuwait and much of the Iraqi
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