DRUG WAR YIELDS INNOCENT CASUALTIES

To the Editor:

Women and children, brutally slain in a moment of confusion.

Fatally bad judgments, breakdowns in discipline, lies and cover-ups. Easily
overlooking the incident because it is a righteous cause.

The conflict was predicated upon false premises and sustained by willful
prevarication. The men making the critical decisions on prosecuting the war
knowing from the beginning that it could not be won.

When I read these words in the second editorial of last Sunday's Herald
American with the title, "Casualties of War," I fully believed it would be
about the shooting of the American Missionaries over the Peruvian jungle.

Then I read further, and saw that the story was actually about Bob Kerry
and Vietnam.

What does it say when an editorial about suspected atrocities in the
Vietnam war could so closely mirror an incident from the War on Drugs?

How many more of these terrible tragedies will occur in the War on Drugs?
Remember, as George Santayana said, "Those who cannot remember the past are
condemned to repeat it."

William John Meyer

North Syracuse

Kindness