Mr. President,

You said a few days ago, "History teaches us that underestimating the words of evil, ambitious men is a terrible mistake. Bin Laden and his terrorist allies have made their intentions as clear as Lenin and Hitler before them. And the question is, will we listen? When it comes to funding our troops, some in Washington should spend more time responding to the warnings of terrorists like Osama bin Laden and the requests of our commanders on the ground and less time responding to the demands of MoveOn.org bloggers and Code Pink protesters."

Your words were profoundly wise. But do you realise that "some in Washington" includes not just your Democrat opponents, but your Secretary of State?

I know you've studied the history of WW2, Sir—in particular the appeasement of Hitler by Neville Chamberlain. Mr. President, Ms. Rice is a Chamberlain in your Administration. She is wilfully underestimating the words of evil, ambitious Islamo-Fascists like Ahmadinejad. She continues to counsel diplomacy while the Iranians supply the weapons that kill your troops in Iraq. She is deafening you, Mr. President, to the requests of your commanders on the ground. General Petraeus has said America is fighting a "proxy war" with Iran. You, Mr. President, must step up and fight this war, as President Reagan would surely have done, and cease to be deterred by the mealy-mouthed weasel-words of Ms. Rice.

While she appeases the Iranian fascists, she is also grovelling to Vladimir Putin and North Korea and tacitly assisting the latter's nuclear machinations with Syria. Mr. President, this woman is a viper in your midst. Mr. President, Condi must go! At stake is not just your own place in history, but the future of western civilisation itself.

Respectfully,

Lindsay Perigo

Principal, Sense of Life Objectivists.

SOLO—SOLOPassion.com

Lindsay Perigo 64 21 255 8715