Tom Donnelly’s editorial “The ‘who’ question” in the December issue leaves me with more questions than answers. The thrust of the article is that the Bush administration has been focusing on the notion that if we have sufficient capabilities for war fighting, enemies will not dare to attack us. This notion is quite mistaken, as Mr. Donnelly points out. There is not any doubt that many potential enemies of the United States are dissuaded by the thought of facing our military, and this is even more true than it was prior to the Bush years. As many have pointed out, however, the fact that we actually have fought armed conflicts on the ground has generated its own crop of discontents, dissidents and disenfranchised enemies. Moreover, and worse, we are teaching the rest of the world how to fight.

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