Kissinger on Somalia

In response to “Is This Any Way to Treat an Incoming Administration?” Opinion, Dec. 13:

True to form, Henry Kissinger writing on Somalia was a commentary Prince Metternich himself would have read with delight. The outrageous irony is that the argument against U.S. intervention for humanitarian purposes is made by the same man who helped send thousands to their deaths in Southeast Asia, sacrificed for the completely misguided “national security interests” of the time. As a Vietnam veteran, I would much rather have had my service be credited toward saving an entire people from starvation than slogging around on the wrong side of a civil war.

DAVID McCLAVE

Northridge