Letters to the Editor
ElyseNYC
Published Letters: 11
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Don't forget...
[Read the article: Newt Gingrich's 1997 trip to China]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Reagan "negotiating" with Iran behind Carter's back and Nixon using a Chinese contact to scuttle the peace talks with Thieu, both for electoral advantage, as well as Perle counseling the Israeli PM against working with Clinton. Can we dig them all up and prosecute. I know Perle's still alive; he just looks like a cadaver.
Hi Glenn. Great catch with Newt.
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Calvin, don't forget...
[Read the article: To Damascus with Nancy Pelosi]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Newt undercutting Gore in China, Reagan "negotiating" with Iran to keep the hostages in Iran so that he could defeat Carter, Nixon telling Thieu that if he backed out of the Paris Peace Talks in 68, Nixon would win and give Thieu a better deal
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paris_Peace_Accords#Early_deadlocks,
Perle convincing Israel to back out of negotiations with the Palestinians being brokered by Clinton.
Democrats believe in diplomacy; Republicans seem to prefer treason.
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Resisted by the White House?
[Read the article: The unresolved story of ABC News' false Saddam-anthrax reports]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]"commonsensical theory (resisted by the White House) that al Qaeda or Iraq -- and not some domestic Ted Kaczynski type -- is behind the germ warfare."
Resisted by the White House? Did they resist the theory or resist being seen pushing it?
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Why didn't he say something during Gonzales' confirmation hearings?
[Read the article: More fallout from the Comey revelations]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]He must have known how inappropriate it was for AG to become the AG.
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The Harvard Bridge
[Read the article: Improvement in Iraq: Trust Joe Klein and his secret sources]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Sorry to get to this so late but the length of the Harvard bridge is 364.4 Smoots plus one ear. The markings are repainted every fall as part of pledge week. It's a very long bridge and the marking that said you were halfway across was always welcome. Legend has it that the bridge, which connects MIT (and the rest of Cambridge) with Boston was so bad that MIT, given the privilege of naming the bridge, named it for Harvard.
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9/11 has unhinged many.
[Read the article: David Brooks' field trip to the White House]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I spent Sunday with some friends, some of whom are so unhinged by 9/11 that, even as they proclaim themselves Democrats, want to see every Muslim who doesn't support America firebombed out of existence. We are all Jews but when I asked how that was different from Hitler they came up with some lame excuse as to why that was not a fair comparison. These are otherwise sweet, loving people (who are supposedly more religious than I am) who are so shaken that lashing out at an entire population is the only way they can feel safe. Perhaps Senator Vitter has some diapers he can spare.
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Another op-ed in the Washington Post, also from Brookings...
[Read the article: The really smart, serious, credible Iraq experts O'Hanlon and Pollack]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/07/27/AR2007072702123.html
by Peter Rodman
Is there a surge in butt-covering going on?
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The DLC circle around Hillary...
[Read the article: Conceding John McCain's "toughness" on national security]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]is why I've gone from Edwards to Obama. The thought of those Republican-lite, bought and paid for triangulators running the Democratic party further into the ground has me question Hillary's judgment about those she has advising her.
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Israel has been ruled by the paranoid right for too long.
[Read the article: Majority of Israelis want to negotiate with Hamas]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Of course Israel has enemies but you don't lessen the threat by crushing ordinary people until they hate you. We have seen how incompetent the RW is at governing in the US; why would anyone think they are any more capable of governing in Israel (OK, Mossad mostly gets the people they're aiming for). What's good for the militant Israeli right wing is not necessarily what's good for Israel.
And here is the obligatory, I'm Jewish, to keep the flames down a bit.
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omooex,
[Read the article: Majority of Israelis want to negotiate with Hamas]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Thank you for your comments. I get the impression though that even if the parties are close in policy on Palestinians, that it's the more RW elements that enforce political orthodoxy here in the US through AIPAC and elsewhere. Yes?
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Only the silent are trustworthy?
[Read the article: The decay of serious journalism and Rachel Maddow's new show]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]It seems that Bob is saying that the only trustworthy pundits are those who are kept off the air. That's rather silly.
I am thrilled that Rachel Maddow will have her own show. She hasn't shown any pulling of punches yet, other than making sure her language is clean. The important point about Maddow, Olbermann and Stewart is that although they are witty, amusing and sarcastic, they are covering serious news in detail that other "news" shows just ignore in favor of sensationalism and Republican talking points.