Debating U.S. Involvement in Gulf Conflict
Our decaying cities are populated with gun-toting drug dealers. The homeless and mentally handicapped wander the streets or huddle in doorways.
The economy is a disaster due to high unemployment and inflation of 6.1%, the worst rate in nine years. The deficit continues to soar despite an increase in taxes. Our grandchildren will still be paying for the savings-and-loan fiasco.
We are involved in a war, which will further strain our financial stability, for a cause that has not been defined. Are we fighting for oil or to return the emir of Kuwait to his throne? No problem of saving democracy here.
If this is the kinder, gentler society we were promised, I must throw away my Webster’s dictionary and find some new definitions for kind and gentle.
DOROTHY CHAPMAN, San Clemente
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