Letters to the Editor

 

To the Editor,

It took two world wars and a cold war for Germany to establish a unified democracy. Our troops are still stationed on the 38th parallel in South Korea and on Okinawa in Japan protecting those democracies. Last week the Coalition Provisional Government of Iraq handed power over to that country's new prime minister establishing a free and sovereign Iraq.

This doesn't mean that our work in Iraq is done, and that there will be no more fighting. It doesn't mean that the war on terror is over and has been won. It does mean that we are on the right track. A free and open society is rising out of a region of the world that terrorist groups and outlaw regimes have used to breed terror and hatred.

I hope the people will remember the struggles of the past: making Germany establish a democracy, and our on going efforts in the present: our troops in South Korea, when they write and speak of Iraq and its budding democracy.

Daniel J. Edson
Gray, Maine