Letters to the Editor

‘Had we not confronted Iraq’

Jay Ambrose is right on target with his column “Defending civilization” (Commentary, Saturday). When will the people in this nation realize that we are in a struggle to save Western civilization? Those who are still fixated on our failure to find weapons of mass destruction within Iraq and on their hatred of President Bush give no credence to the chemical weapons recently found in Jordan.

Nor do they give any consideration to the circumstances that would exist had we not confronted Iraq but let Pakistan’s nuclear expert Abdul Qadeer Kahn continue to peddle his wares to Iraq, Iran and others.

If we fail to meet this challenge with the dedication and perseverance it deserves, we will face another Dark Ages. Consider that demographics and immigration in Europe indicate that by 2050, Europeans will be in the minority in their own countries. France, Germany, Italy, Spain and the Netherlands are not replacing their aging populations. Muslim immigrants represent 20 percent of the French population.

Under these conditions, with jihad still rampant, it takes little imagination to see Muslim control of Europe, Northern Africa, the Middle East (goodbye, Israel) and Indonesia by midcentury.

I agree fully with Mr Ambrose’s closing comment that “our civilization could be done serious and lasting damage if we do not fight this fight as if we mean it as much as we did the Cold War or World War ll.”

CAPT. RED STEIN

U.S. Navy (retired)

Edgewater, Md.

Is Bush a conservative?

You wrote in the Monday editorial “Bush’s conservative support” that “the president showed why conservatives will support him in November: Because he is one of them.” Unfortunately, he is not.

Under President Bush, the Republican Party has become the party of big government. The government has grown bigger and bigger, with more agencies, bureaucracies and enforcement programs. This president and a Republican Congress have given us an 8.2 percent annual increase in discretionary domestic spending (that’s non-defense, non-entitlement), far greater than anything during the Clinton administration or any other administration since Richard Nixon’s. This administration has given us the largest new entitlement program in almost four decades. Mr. Bush has yet to veto a single spending bill.

Mr. Bush refuses to secure our borders. He has proposed a de facto amnesty for illegal aliens. He has given us an unconstitutional campaign-finance law that prohibits corporations and unions from talking about any federal candidate 60 days before an election.

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