HELPING COLOMBIA

Editor -- I am deeply disturbed at the front-page headline of your
newspaper, "I can tell them that this will be worse than Vietnam"
(March 2). It does not look like a serious newspaper headline, but
(quoting a senior FARC commander) that of the Colombian guerrillas'
bulletin.

The guerrillas are petrified at the fact that finally the United
States will help the Colombian military in the country's fight
against terrorism, and that the Colombian people have decided to
confront them.

Vietnam was a nightmare because the United States fought the people
of Vietnam. Now we are going to help the people of Colombia, a huge
difference.

Civil resistance against guerrilla terrorism is at its highest.
Guerrilla disinformation is not helping.

MARIO VINASCO, Hayward