I got a note from Linda, who lives in Australia. Linda is against the war, and she proudly lists Australian actors who are also against it. Well that settles things. Pack it up boys, because Linda and a third-rate gaggle of pretty people down under say war is wrong. It's not just wrong, according to Linda, but it "has no reasoning."

As the late Daniel Patrick Moynihan once said, everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not his own facts. The reasons are plain as day, Linda, as are the myriad examples of war not only solving problems, but making things downright peachy. Your ilk existed in the 1930's when Hitler was putting innocents under his boot heel and gearing up his murder machine, protesting that a little land was all he wanted. You threw yourselves in front of the Berlin Wall, and denounced those who rightly decried Communist regimes as evil. You've defended Mao, Nasser, Nkrumah, Castro, Ortega, and every other brute who promises to thwart America and capitalism, because you are not pro-peace, you are anti-America.

That's fine so far as it goes; we all know that Australia has much better to offer than you and a handful of skilled script-readers. What troubles me most is the way you sign your missive: "Linda, Ceramist, Poet, Mother, Artist and Antiviolence protestor.

Let me get this straight. You put "Ceramist" and "Poet" ahead of "Mother." Your children have my sympathy.

Kisses,

Ernie