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...Dining with the Devil Columnist Andrew Sullivan's "Let's Have a Truce" [Nov. 15] urged both parties to put the election behind them and work together. However, we have a President who has alienated half of this country and most of the rest of the world by his irresponsible actions. Asking those who are sickened by Bush's past four years to declare a truce is like asking a fundamentalist Christian to have lunch with the devil. It's not going to happen. Richard Moberg Philadelphia...
...election campaign was extremely divisive. Voters were called on to recognize fundamental differences between the candidates. The issues of character and values may have given the edge to Bush. So how can one call for a truce if such important issues are at stake, and why should the nation fall in line behind President Bush? If you voted for Kerry, what is wrong with accepting that for the next four years this President does not speak for you? What is wrong with recognizing disunity? Harmony does not come from a nation united behind its leader, giving him a second chance...
...Dining with the Devil Columnist Andrew Sullivan's "Let's Have a Truce" [Nov. 15] urged both parties to put the election behind them and work together. We have a President, however, who has alienated half of this country and most of the rest of the world by his irresponsible actions. Asking those who are sickened by Bush's past four years to declare a truce is like asking a fundamentalist Christian to have lunch with the devil. It's not going to happen. Richard Moberg Philadelphia...
...Israel? Had his acceptance of Israel's right to exist, expressed implicitly in 1988 and explicitly as part of the Oslo accords in 1993, been a trick? That has become the prevalent belief among Israelis. Arafat encouraged that view by at times likening the Oslo agreements to a tactical truce the Prophet Muhammad negotiated with his enemies only so that he could later conquer them. Arafat's Israeli critics believe he never gave up on the Palestine Liberation Organization's "phased plan" of taking lands bit by bit from Israel with the aim of eventually seizing control of not only...
...decided one way or the other, however fuming you may still be inside. Lefties should lay off on the threats to move abroad; righties should quit the gloating. Neither is warranted. There's a difference between domestic opponents and foreign enemies. It's time we called a truce in the family squabble and turned again to the terrorists at our door...