Memo to George Bush

Letter to the editor in yesterday's Chicago Tribune:

I'm getting tired of apologists for our misadventures in Iraq minimizing the severity of the insurgency in cities like Fallujah, Iraq, claiming that the true measure of our success there should be the relative calm in other areas.

By that very same logic, we shouldn't have gotten too excited about the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks because, after all America is a big place, and terrorists only hit New York and Washington D.C.

Howard West
Aurora (Illinois)

What do you know? Bush's anti-terrorism efforts have been a huge success, after all. Al Qaeda only managed to hit only two cities.