To the editor:
The pundits have much advice for Democrats (Journal-World, Nov. 7), but none touched on the most urgent problem our country faces. I urge the Democrats to make settling the war against al-Qaida their top priority. The war and not "values" is the biggest distraction from those issues on which Americans generally agree with Democrats.
What most impedes a satisfactory outcome is President Bush's war leadership, in my view the least competent in American history since the War of 1812. Democrats need to push for effective policies, including:
1. Cutting our losses and getting out of Iraq expeditiously;
2. Focusing like a laser on al-Qaida, not like a blunderbuss on "terror" in general;
3. Humbly seeking multilateral support;
4. Earning that support by re-establishing traditional American values against torture and preventive war;
5. Brokering a just settlement between Israel and Palestine; and
6. Giving our troops real support, including adequate pay, better equipment, better benefits for injured soldiers, shorter rotations, public recognition of our dead and abolition of the backdoor draft of the National Guard.
David Burress,
Lawrence
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