‘Just War’ or Just War?
Your editorial “Tricky Concept of a Just War” (Feb. 9) about Vice President Quayle’s insensitive assesment of the Gulf War as a “just war” is hypocritical on his part.
The vice president during the Vietnam conflict dodged the draft by joining the Indiana National Guard while the rest of us had to volunteer or be drafted.
As Rodolfo Acuna, professor of Chicano studies at Cal State Northridge, professes: “In pressing their arguments against the war, Latinos should remember one of the great lessons of the Vietnam War--body bags tell only part of the story. When Vietnam was behind us, Americans remained separate and unequal. No number of American flags or yellow ribbons can erase this fact.”
JAIME B. VEGA, Santa Ana
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