Congressman Ron Klein

January 12, 2009

Congressman Ron Klein
800 East Broward Boulevard
Fort Lauderdale, Florida 33301

RE: I guess it depends on who the “surge” is for or against.

Congressman Klein,

I enclose copies of three letters that you have not answered. Maybe you couldn’t; maybe you didn’t want to. Either way I am a constituent of yours and, at the very least, am entitled to the courtesy of a reply however obfuscatory or scatological.

Your public statements say that you are opposed to American military involvement in Iraq. Yesterday, your presence at a rally favoring the Israeli “surge” into Gaza – Are people living in Gaza called Gazanians? – tells me that your opposition to American military responses is not a universal one.

Sherman, the architect of a very successful “surge”, said his actions were undertaken to make the people of Georgia and the Carolinas “howl”. He shortened the war by at least a year, possibly 18 months. There was another “surge” at the end of the Civil War. Sheridan went through the Shenandoah Valley in such a manner that a crow flying after him would starve, such was the desolation wrought by him.

You seem to object to Muslims being killed by Americans but not by Israelis. Why is that? Is a Muslim with murder in his heart killed by an American any more dead than one killed by an Israeli? How can you be in favor of one and opposed to the other?

Can I anticipate the courtesy of a reply or am I just being naïve?