(The Post , to its credit, published a rave by Ronald Steel.)

"Like Bosnia, Vietnam was a war that Johnson was wary of getting involved in at the time," said the historian Ronald Steel.

To the Editor: Ronald Steel (Op-Ed, July 21) misses an important point.

Ronald Steel, a superb analyst of Kennan for many decades, praised it in the American Prospect.

This is "an endearing and well-written book," Ronald Steel wrote in these pages last year.

As the historian Ronald Steel put it: "The huge deficit made it impossible for the Administration to fund an activist foreign policy.

Ronald Steel (Op-Ed, Aug. 23) writes, "Is it permissible to attack the host along with the target?"

By Ronald Steel.

Ronald Steel was born in 1931 in Morris, Illinois outside of Chicago.

The author was Ronald Steel, not Mr. Lash.