Letters to the editor

Whose side is she on?

It’s becoming increasingly clear that the war in Iraq has driven Georgie Anne Geyer off the deep end, as evidenced in her Saturday Op-Ed column, “Easing the mule from the minaret.”

After beginning with her mule analogy, she proceeds to inform us that the regime of Saddam Hussein was already “collapsing” when we foolishly invaded and that we have become a “destructive force” for evil.

She then goes on to quote “expert” opinion found in such left-leaning outfits as The Washington Post and The Nation. Not satisfied with this, she finds it “prominent and wise” when a good friend of hers accuses our American fighting forces of being akin to Hessian mercenaries. Shades of Michael Moore and his characterization of Iraqi terrorists as Minutemen. To wrap up this piece of foolishness, Miss Geyer digs up some NATO functionaries to predict that the Iraq war will mean “the destruction of the American Army.” Will someone please enlighten this woman?

JIM RADER

Gaithersburg

Look out for the working man

Patrice Hill’s report on the latest job numbers and the state of the economy (“Falling job growth, stalling wages bode ill for shopping,” Page,1 Saturday) was right on.

Unfortunately, when it comes to the economy, I think your paper hasbeen far too willing, especially in the run-up to the recent election, to be less than hard-nosed about the facts.

Not all conservatives are successful businessmen. Some of your regular readers, like me, are just lowly laborers, and this report told it how it really is down in the trenches.

Prospects are bright for highly educated workers with specialized skills, but for your average worker, things are not so sanguine.

Those of us who work in the trenches have known for two or three years that our real wages are stuck or declining. This can’t go on forever, or there will be an upheaval in politics, one not likely to favor Republicans.

Story Continues →