'Assassin' premise - Los Angeles Times

IN response to Tim Rutten’s review of Robert Ferrigno’s “Prayers for the Assassin,” whose premise is predicated on the U.S. losing the global war on terrorism [“A Vision of Al Qaeda as

Victor,” Feb. 15]: I can assure you that while the marginalized blue-state Democrats are busy wringing their hands in the very doubt the author implies will bleed the U.S. white, the

currently ruling red-state Republican-supported military, which has not lost its nerve, which has maintained its “absolute belief in the rightness of [its] cause,” which has not lost its

“confidence in [its] Judeo-Christian identity and the political values to which it gave rise,” is busy fighting the war and sticking it out, making sure this never happens. CATHERINE E.

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