Love? Yes, but ...

RE Clint Eastwood’s new movie “Letters From Iwo Jima” (“War Is Hell for the Enemy Too,” by Bruce Wallace, Nov. 24): Clint Eastwood discovered that Japanese soldiers “loved their mothers and miss[ed] their children,” that a Japanese general was “a caring father” and that the Japanese “fought to protect their loved ones.”

The Japanese military was a killing machine of aggressive war, torture, terror and mass murder. Totally irrelevant is a universal trait of family love. Will his next film be about how much Nazi and Communist killers and terrorists loved their families?

ROBERT E. HAYES

Long Beach