LETTER: The dangers of American intervention
February 4, 2023 - 9:01 pm
In her Tuesday letter, “Lost purpose,” Eleanor Van Sciver writes that the war in Ukraine “is our last stand for democracy in Eastern Europe.” Or, as George Santayana would say, the war in Vietnam is our last stand for democracy in eastern Asia. In the words of my generation, that light at the end of the tunnel is just an oncoming freight train.