A Wartime Transition
Re “Interim Afghan Leaders Sworn In,” Dec. 23: After hearing a similar claim on TV, I was flabbergasted to read in The Times that the ceremony swearing in Interim Prime Minister Hamid Karzai marked “the first time in 28 years that power has been transferred to a new Afghan government without the use of guns.”
Excuse me? In what universe does the dropping of 15,000-pound “daisy cutter” bombs, three months of tribal fighting and thousands dead not constitute the “use of guns”?
Truly, if The Times wishes to propagandize it should at least wait until the fighting has ceased before it rewrites history.
Alex Bogartz
Van Nuys
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