To the Editor:
Thomas L. Friedman, speaking as President Bush, tells Prime Minister Ariel Sharon: "We're fighting for our self-defense," and I need you "to postpone your war now" (column, Oct. 23).
Postpone? Israel's war started a year before America's. Today, when I go to work, I will worry that my bus will be attacked or that I will be blown up on a street corner. I wonder whether I should really take our new daughter to the doctor in Jerusalem. Three friends of mine were shot and killed on the road. Should my government sit by so America can fight its war, but we cannot fight ours?
BARRY LYNN
Efrat, West Bank, Oct. 23, 2001
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