Editor,
I respectfully disagree with your editorial "Death of Saddam's sons not a victory." I object to your assertion that killing these evil overseers of Saddam's apparatus of torture and mayhem serves no purpose because the Fadeyeen will keep on killing, our troops will keep on dying and Saddam remains free. Applying such logic to a similar historical situation, it follows that you similarly would have not approved of the killing of the fearsome Gestapo chief Reinhard Heydrich during WWII.
"How," you would say, "could there be victory in killing the bloodthirsty Wannsee craftsman of the final solution? Hitler is still free and in command, and the Nazis are still resisting - vigorously - our efforts to occupy the German homeland."
So, if people who thought like you were in charge during WWII, it is possible that this newspaper might be written in German.
Yet we must be kind to the anti-war folks of that era, because they did not have history to guide them - they had to live through it to learn the error of their ways.
It is distressing to see students who ostensibly are seeking a liberal education, but have no appreciation for history, and therefore no ability to learn from it. Indeed, and with all due respect, I am deeply dismayed by your editorial because it displays not only gross ignorance of history, but also dull thinking and upside-down moral sensibilities.
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Michael Spilde
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