Voices > Mailbag   "Mailbag" Continued...   To be fair
Regarding the opposition to a school reading program involving
books with Christian themes ("Ban the culture," Nov. 19): They
can't just ban books with Christian themes, then. To be fair,
they can't have books about any religion, from Judaism to
witchcraft, not just Christianity. How far are they willing to
take this nonsense? -Theresa Larsen; Hammond, Wis.  No
protection  Patrick's story of being abducted to become a child
soldier in the Lord's Resistance Army in Uganda is horrific
("Child soldiers," Nov. 12). I would also ask, why were the
children of the north not properly protected? The dreadful camps
that were one-stop shopping for the LRA (food, recruits,
medicine) were never adequately protected, nor when the
government would not or could not protect the camps did the
Museveni government call for outside help. The goal of the
Museveni regime has never been to protect the children or
prevent their abduction, but to defeat the "commanders" of the
LR