‘Assassin’ premise

IN response to Tim Rutten’s review of Robert Ferrigno’s “Prayers for the Assassin,” whose premise is predicated on the U.S. losing the global war on terrorism [“A Vision of Al Qaeda as Victor,” Feb. 15]:

I can assure you that while the marginalized blue-state Democrats are busy wringing their hands in the very doubt the author implies will bleed the U.S. white, the currently ruling red-state Republican-supported military, which has not lost its nerve, which has maintained its “absolute belief in the rightness of [its] cause,” which has not lost its “confidence in [its] Judeo-Christian identity and the political values to which it gave rise,” is busy fighting the war and sticking it out, making sure this never happens.

CATHERINE E. BARNEBEY

Redondo Beach