As published in E-R today

I wrote a response to three or four other letter writers who took my name in vain. I thanked them for their opinions. Then, I said (excerpted): "My objection to our withdrawal from Iraq at this time stems from. . . compassion, and. . . the common sense approach to diplomacy" which dictates that U.S. intervention in world affairs is "welcomed by the weak and oppressed, and must be feared by those who exploit them."

I concluded with the emotional sentence: "When a distraught Iraqi child needs comforting and some explanation of Sharia law, there should be a trusted American soldier to whom to turn."