THE ISSUE: America’s mission in Iraq and George Bush’s legacy as president.
The inability of the administration to articulate a mission statement that makes sense certainly has led to much of today’s predicament (“It’s the War,” John Podhoretz, Post- Opinion, June 1).
One area that John Podhoretz did not mention is the complicity of members of the Democratic opposition and the mainstream media.
Once an insurgency sees a weakness in the public, it will pick on that weakness until it meets its needs.
What would this war have looked like, despite not having the troops, plans or organization, if we had just shown the will as a nation?
The direction of the war was changed more by the reporting and discussion of Abu Ghraib than on any battlefield.
Steve Campbell
Wichita Falls, Kan.
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Sorry, Podhoretz. President Bush’s problems don’t stem from Iraq, they stem from his party affiliation.
Never in our lifetime will a conservative win favor with our liberal elitist media.
While we read and listen to the pompous uninformed media, so do the politicians on the right. They, too, want to be accepted by this extension of the liberal minority.
If Bush discovered a cure for AIDS or cancer, people would still call him an idiot for not doing it sooner. And if there were victory in Iraq, people would complain about Iran or North Korea.
Political capital is about as worthless as the German mark before World War II.
Charlie Honadel
Staten Island
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Ralph Peters (“Out-Thought by the Enemy,” PostOpinion, June 1) and Podhoretz both did outstanding jobs with their recent articles.
The articles I read in The Post nail the issues better than any other newspaper I’ve read.
Michael Parnell
Warren, Ark.