U.S. Military Aid to Somalia
The best of Bush--baloney (“The Best of America, the Best of Bush” editorial, Dec. 4)! The notion that only Americans care and can get the job done--baloney!
If the U.N. cannot ensure the delivery of food to Somalia then there is no place in the world that it can play a peacekeeping and/or humanitarian role.
The “oil” in Somalia is the opportunity to justify Bush’s fealty to the weapons-makers he shills for, the opportunity to justify continued bloated defense budgets, the opportunity to continue our disastrous role of military policeman to the whole world.
The alternative is not isolationism or uncompassionate inaction. The alternative is to promote and support the U.N. to play its rightful role. If we paid our back dues to the U.N. it would cost less than the Somalia expedition and we would have some money left to take care of our own.
BERNARD FELDMAN
Laguna Hills
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