Letters to the Editor
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‘Archbishop of Canterbury Harshly Criticizes America’
With respect to Nicholas Wapshott’s piece, it is clear that the invidious comparisons that Archbishop Rowan Williams makes with regard to the British in India and the Americans in Iraq say more about the long-term goals of the socialist left than they do about America’s strategy in Iraq [Foreign, “Archbishop of Canterbury Harshly Criticizes America,” November 26, 2007].
What Mr. Williams and his left-wing cohorts want America to do in Iraq is precisely what the British did in India — pull out precipitately and leave behind a sectarian bloodbath; that is their strategy.
For the archbishop to bash President Bush for not following the British example in India has a certain coherence.
He is bashing Mr. Bush for failing to follow Clement Attlee, the apt errand boy of the Marxist intelligentsia who became Britain’s prime minister in 1945 and withdrew British forces from India in 1947 in accordance with a pre-announced timetable.
So, if in 1947 the left’s objective was to have 200,000 Hindus and Muslims killed in India to discredit imperialist Britain, their objective in Iraq today must be to have infinitely more Shiites, Sunnis, and Kurds killed to discredit imperialist America.
For Archbishop Williams, as for most of the international left, the only presidents and prime ministers worthy of support are those who are prepared to do the bidding of left-wing polemicists. That is why the archbishop and his friends devote so much time to reviling Mr. Bush. The fact that the archbishop adds sanctimony to his contumely does not make it any less offensive.
EDWARD SHORT
Woodside, N.Y.
‘As Macy’s Prepares Big Parade’
Oh no. Now I’m really depressed. All along I’ve thought that a misplaced apostrophe in the word “its” had its limits. Now the virus has struck the Sun [Business, November 21, 2007].
In a page one article on Wednesday, November 21, the headline reads “As Macy’s Prepares Big Parade, It’s Stock is Marching Downhill.”
SARANNE ROSNER
Far Rockaway, N.Y.