Madeleine Albright

Re “Albright: War’s Spiritual Patron,” Commentary, April 2: Arianna Huffington’s article calls attention to the repeated failures of Secretary of State Madeleine Albright’s policies in the world, her shortsighted views and subjective approach to diplomacy. Her policies have failed to subdue Saddam Hussein, have forced Russia to live with NATO at its boundaries with as yet unseen consequences, have created a new enemy for the U.S. by bombing Serbia and have dealt serious blows to international approaches to solving crises by favoring intervention by NATO rather than the United Nations. It is time for President Clinton to ask for her resignation.

ALBERT R. BACA

Northridge

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Arianna “The Good” has spoken. Albright is responsible for the killing of the Kosovo Albanians. Huffington waits until the eighth paragraph of her column before passively mentioning Slobodan Milosevic as if he were a victim of circumstance. Does Huffington blame D-Day for Hitler stepping up the killings in the Holocaust? Her revisionist lying goes beyond dishonesty. It is evil.

GLENN C. DAVIS

Laguna Beach

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Would someone please explain to our naive president that war is real, and the other side gets to do things like shoot back and take prisoners.

RICHARD A. CHASE

Corona

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Re “Saluting Our Latino Soldiers,” Commentary, April 2:

Frank del Olmo observes three beaten American soldiers and sees only their ethnic differences. I have to wonder if what we’re fighting in the Balkans isn’t the same thing we’re becoming at home: a country obsessed with race and ethnicity.

Del Olmo finds disturbing an ex-Marine who couldn’t recall serving with many Latinos. Perhaps this Marine just isn’t consumed with the differences between people. Perhaps he doesn’t judge people “by the color of their skin but rather by the content of their character.”

THOMAS W. ECKER

Los Angeles

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Congratulations to Del Olmo. As Latinos, we have contributed economically and socially in helping make California the great state it has become. Yet for some reason the movie and television industries have failed to depict us in a positive light, or do not show us at all.

All Latinos who have contributed, have fought and continue to fight for the defense of this great state and country should stand up say to America and to all those “true Americans,” “We too are Americans and loyal Latino sons and daughters.” We have all contributed algo.

RAUL MARTINEZ

La Habra

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Our bombing in Kosovo is in keeping with humans’ millennia-old barbaric pattern of using force to solve almost any tribal disagreement. Isn’t it a pity that we humans haven’t been able to work out viable ways to defuse racial/ethnic hatreds except by force? What a terrible legacy to dump into the next millennium.

ULA PENDLETON

Los Angeles