Democrats and Gulf Crisis

The war in the Gulf did not decide who was right, only who is left. The Democratic vote for negotiations (rather than for war) did not have a chance to work. Going to war did not make the Democrats wrong--they lost the vote. What they said then is still relevant--we have to resolve the problems by negotiation.

Now the war is over but all that has been solved is that Iraq is out of Kuwait. All the rest of the problems will have to be solved by negotiations or by another war. If negotiations will work now, why wouldn’t they have worked before we went to war? Negotiation is not appeasement.

VIRGINIA L. UNRUHE

Ojai