Letters to the Editor
bloomsbury
Published Letters: 407 Editor's Choice: 5
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Nostalgia
[Read the article: The Libby lobby's pardon campaign]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Ah, nostalgia! It seems like only yesterday, kiddies, that Dean was singing like a canary about Nixon's crimes and Nixon was listening to his tapes in the White House and doing King Lear (badly). Everyone knows Libby was 'just obeying orders'. He's not the problem anymore than Bush is. Cheney's the problem, just like Nixon was the problem. The real question is, do these crooked, foolish people ever learn anything? On current form the answer's got to be no. More importantly someone should wake up to the fact that this is not about individuals: the entire system stinks (as decaying corpses tend to) and needs to be torn down and rebuilt from the ground up. Disinfectant won't fix it. Libby is just an insect on the windscreen of history. An example of how no historical lessons are ever learned in America was a program that showed people on the streets of New York being interviewed about 9/11. Asked what year 9/11 took place several said 2003, 2004. Asked what month 9/11 happened (incredibly) some people said October, December. Is that why the lesson of Nixon and his inglorious reign was never learned? History just falls into the abyss and everything becomes a sound bite. This fits in with the moronic statement of one commentator that since 9/11 there's no history, no past, only a continuous present. You believe crap like that at your peril. Though I can imagine that there are more than a few people who don't want a close examination of what went on that autumn day in 2001. They want to control or dismiss history but over time that becomes impossible. Truth will out and over time Libby and the Valerie Plame furore will recede into the distance and much bigger crimes will be revealed. Just as Nixon's domestic crimes hid much bigger foreign policy crimes.
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Liebermann
[Read the article: Joe Lieberman, warmongering centrist]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Joe Liebermann works for the Israelis, votes for the Israelis and speaks for the Israelis. Centrist? In what universe?
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The dark
[Read the article: "The Sopranos" goes dark]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]'The Sopranos' goes dark! It's always been dark. It's about the bloody mafia for God's sake. Has anyone ever considered how unwise it is to make heroes of scum? Is it really true that the mafia funded the 'Godfather' movie? If so it explains a lot. The Kennedys were right about the mafia but being murdered made fixing the problem a little bit difficult. American society has gone steadily downhill ever since and it's no coincidence. Look at the criminality and corruption that's endemic to the 'justice'system and the political system and what goes on in the White House and the intelligence services. Where do you think it comes from? Those who are merciful to the cruel will end by being cruel to the merciful. The Old Testament. Absolutely on the money for once.
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Jesus wept
[Read the article: Lieberman: I could "definitely" support a Republican in 2008]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Liebermann is a joke. The only possible response to his grotesque duplicity is to burst out laughing. Or to remember something pleasant: like George Harrison in the Beatles movie being asked by an old curmudgeon 'What do you call that hairstyle?' and Harrison saying 'Fred'. Now that makes sense. Liebermann makes no sense at all. He could support a Republican? He is a damn Republican and that's why Republicans re-elected him. He's a plant, a mole, some kind of fox in the henhouse. He even let George Bush kiss him. Pardon me while I vomit.
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shoulders of giants
[Read the article: Nixon knows best]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]As far as de-segregation goes Nixon stood on the shoulders of giants. He couldn't have done a thing if the Kennedys hadn't done what they did and if thousands of anonymous citizens, both black and white hadn't put their bodies and in some cases their lives on the line. The black and white news footage from the sixties shows scenes that could have come out of South Africa at its worst, police beating people and setting dogs on them. Nixon may have done a few good things to advance what had been done by better people but basically he was horribly flawed as a leader. I accept that he may look less grotesque now because George W.Bush is so much worse.
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shoulders of giants
[Read the article: Nixon knows best]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]As far as de-segregation goes Nixon stood on the shoulders of giants. He couldn't have done a thing if the Kennedys hadn't done what they did and if thousands of anonymous citizens, both black and white hadn't put their bodies and in some cases their lives on the line. The black and white news footage from the sixties shows scenes that could have come out of South Africa at its worst, police beating people and setting dogs on them. Nixon may have done a few good things to advance what had been done by better people but basically he was horribly flawed as a leader. I accept that he may look less grotesque now because George W.Bush is so much worse.