LESSONS OF THE GULF WAR
Keegan says that with our great new weapons, “bombing need no longer entail the mass murder of civilian populations.”
I heard that more than 100,000 Iraqi civilians died from our bombs and that more than 70,000 of those were children.
I think that if 100,000 people were killed in Los Angeles, we would call it mass murder.
L. A. HEBERLEIN
Los Angeles
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