To the Editor:
Re "Saudi Women Have Message for U.S. Envoy" (front page, Sept. 28):
I treasure the vote and the other rights and privileges that American women and the men supporting them have fought for and won. Yet I'm appalled that Karen P. Hughes, the American under secretary of state for public diplomacy, is telling Saudi women that they should want these same rights and privileges.
People wonder why some people in other countries "hate America." Isn't such arrogance an irritant? Why can't we let the women in other countries fight for their own democratic rights just as we did, rather than telling them what's good for them?
Has it ever occurred to the administration that unless we're invited to do so, we shouldn't be going around telling people what they should want?
Kathy Seal
Santa Monica, Calif., Sept. 28, 2005
Is this letter full of hypocrisy or simple ignorance or sarcasm?
I'm picking sarcasm, since the other two choices make me sad to be an American.