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With dismay I read a recent letter about the East-West Center’s supposed failure (“East-West Center failed to live up to core mission,” Star-Advertiser, May 12). Many of your readers are well aware of the East-West Center’s role in providing scholarships to students across the Asia-Pacific region. Equally prominent, its excellent research endeavors bring together countless American and international students, scholars and policy makers.
The center proudly boasts of supporting and producing students, diplomats, regional scholars and policymakers over its 65-year history.
The center is a forum for dialogue, welcoming people from across the Asia-Pacific region to its Honolulu and Washington, D.C., campuses. This includes journalists, diplomats and, yes, even military personnel. To have an informed dialogue without including military officers would deny any meaningful understanding of our current world. This is an important way that the East-West Center promotes peace and understanding throughout Asia and the Pacific.
Edward J. Shultz
Aiea
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