Senator Joseph Lieberman, a shill for Israel, wrote an op ed for the WSJ ("War" Street Journal), July 6, 2007, charging Iran with attacking American troops in Iraq. He thinks we should attack Iran.

What would Senator Lieberman do if Iran invaded our neighbors Mexico, or Canada? Would the senator stay out of Mexico and Canada, or would he be clamoring for us to defend our neighbors and protect us from Iran's expansionism?

It appears the senator thinks it is acceptable for the United States to invade other countries and their neighbors should accept our expansionism. He thinks Iran has nothing to fear from America and Israel. His hubris and arrogance is mystifying.

Iran has not invaded another country during the past 75 years. How many countries has the United States invaded during that same time?

Charles Tolleson

Lycurgus, the lawgiver of Sparta, is reported to have reared two dogs of the same litter by fattening one in the kitchen and training the other in the fields to the sound of the bugle and the horn, thereby to demonstrate to the Lacedaemonians that men, too, develop according to their early habits. He set the two dogs in the open market place, and between them he placed a bowl of soup and a hare. One ran to the bowl of soup, the other to the hare; yet they were, as he maintained, born brothers of the same parents. In such manner did this leader, by his laws and customs, shape and instruct the Spartans so well that any one of them would sooner have died than acknowledge any sovereign other than law and reason. "The Discours sur la servitude volontaire of" ÉTIENNE DE LA BOÉTIE, 1548