Security in the Mideast

The author is quite right in her Opinion page column "The Gulf War's Credits and Debits," Feb. 27. There will be no security in the Middle East without democracy - without economic development and reform. Moreover, there will be no security without balanced relations between the poor and rich. Some of the "have-nots" in the region don't even have a homeland. Mahmoud Ellaissi, Satesboro, Ga.

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