The Struggle Between Holy Days and War
Re “Attacks During Ramadan May Be Costly,” Nov. 3: The many Muslims and Muslim apologists who are trying to drum up a pause in the war by the U.S. and Britain during Ramadan conveniently omit that several Muslim armies didn’t hesitate to attack Israel on the holiest day of the Jewish year, Yom Kippur.
David Sternlight
Los Angeles
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I cannot understand the repeated demands that every mention of innocent casualties in Afghanistan be accompanied by a mention of the horrors of Sept. 11. Are we supposed to feel that the blood of Afghans somehow washes away the blood of Americans? Are the tears of Afghan women and children supposed to dilute our own tears? Are we going to rebuild the ruins in Manhattan with the rubble of mud walls in Kabul and Kandahar? In the arithmetic of killing and suffering there is no subtraction. There is only addition.
Marvin A. Gluck
Topanga
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