July 26, 2010 – The New York Times Leaked Documents Offer Candid Look at Afghan War To the Editor: Re “The Afghan Struggle: A Secret Archive” (“The War Logs,” front page, July 26): To the Editor: It should come as no surprise that Pakistan has been aiding the Taliban (“Pakistan Spy Unit Aiding Insurgents, Reports [...]

San Francisco Chronicle – Letters to the editor – July 20, 2010 Worse than warming Words matter, and it is misleading of The Chronicle to frame “Climategate” as, simply, a “warming debate.” CO{-2} increase in the atmosphere results in multiple climate changes as temperature and air and water currents are affected, resulting in different and [...]

New York Times Letters – 6/24/10 To the Editor: The foreign policy disarray evidenced by the McChrystal affair is a predictable fallout where, once again, we are involved in a war we cannot win. A conflict is inevitable where, like Vietnam, the White House is trying to figure out how to end the conflict looking [...]

Letter A Futile ‘War on Drugs’ Letters, New York Times Published: April 25, 2010 To the Editor: As Mexican immigrants flee drug violence (“Fleeing Extreme Drug Violence, Mexican Families Pour Into U.S.,” front page, April 18), it should be obvious that any immigration reform will not be successful unless the United States ends its so-called [...]

San Francisco Chronicle “Letters” 5/3/10 The unfunny part While South Park’s poking fun at Islam has been defended almost universally (“Poking fun at religion is free speech,” Letters, April 28), what is not funny or defensible is the hurt felt by the Islamic world caused by the Western wars against its peoples, preceded by centuries [...]

San Francisco Chronicle Letters to the editor Wednesday, April 7, 2010 The editorial “Karzai: friend or foe?” (April 6) reflects a mind-set that assumes the United States should be occupying and “nation-building” in Afghanistan because the Taliban represents a threat to the United States, when in reality the Taliban is an indigenous, grass-roots Pashtun movement [...]

Voters, it’s up to you now San Francisco Chronicle – Letters to the Editor – Tuesday, January 26, 2010 A call for public financing If the “populist-progressive alliance” called for by E.J. Dionne Jr. (“A real wave of populism,” Jan. 25) wants to drive a stake into the heart of the Supreme Court-backed corporate takeover [...]

How to stop terrorism – SF Chronicle 12/30/09 The Chronicle misses the mark in its attempt “to speak the truth” about stopping terrorism (Editorial, Dec. 29). If we wish to stop driving young men and women into giving their lives in acts of terrorism, we must stop killing innocent Muslims, stop expanding our occupation of [...]

New York Times – December 5, 1994 [Page 1] Reversing an Exodus — A special report: Former Refugees See Opportunity in Vietnam By SETH MYDANS, DA LAT, Vietnam— She couldn’t stop sampling the tropical fruits, the steamed snails, the candied plums. She was enthralled by the children, with their red scarves, trooping along the dirt [...]

August 14, 2009 Letter Time for Leadership To the Editor: Re “Senator Goes Face to Face With Dissent” (front page, Aug. 12): If there ever was a time for leadership, now is the time for President Obama to make his case to the American people in clear and uncertain terms about what changes he believes [...]

Dear Editor: Political reality (that is, our pay to play system) requires compromise, but where does the drug industry get off charging outrageously high non-competitive drug prices, undermining the social good of providing universal health care ["White House Affirms Deal on Drug Cost" 8/6]?   If socialized medicine is so terrible for the injured and sick, [...]

July 25, 2009 at 11:37 a.m. SEATTLE TIMES Travel to Cuba Posted by Bruce Ramsey A reader writes: I’ve read with interest your July 21 column on your visit to Cuba. There are, as you noted, drab state stores where Cubans can use their currency to obtain basic necessities, like beans and rice, but the [...]