To the Editor:
Bravo on "A Fighting Strategy for Veterans" (editorial, March 5). Veterans should do what they did in war: fight for all Americans and for the values of this country, for equality and justice.
I know of no veteran who risked his life for a tax cut for the wealthy but plenty who fought for a compassionate country that takes care of its less well off, children and the elderly.
President Bush's cynical strategy to try to use us to achieve his unconscionable domestic cuts will not work. But there is a more cynical game afoot.
The administration is raising trial balloons to pit veterans' benefits and retired pay against active-duty needs, especially the need for more, higher cost systems.
Veterans must not only fight for the disadvantaged; we must fight for the needed equipment for our troops, but not unnecessary systems.
Armor kits for Humvees are not expensive but are not being provided, while $250 million-per-copy aircraft are.
So veterans must fight a two-front war with this administration. Fortunately, we know how to fight.
Richard L. KlassArlington,
Va., March 6, 2005
The writer, a retired Air Force colonel and aerospace marketing consultant, is president, Veterans Institute for Security and Democracy.
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