Letters to the Editor
Titus Pullo
Published Letters: 65 Editor's Choice: 1
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-- RichEmery
[Read the article: Wolfowitz the lover, not the fighter]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]That's a very rich, very Clintonian response, but the rules an organization are governed by apply equally to everyone employed by the organization. The investigating committee was not the slightest bit interested in a fair report. They're simply the Red Queen: first we'll pronounce judgment, then we'll hold a trial.
Your failure to address many of the other issues involved speaks volumes if you can come up with only this pipsqueak of a response.
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In the end we're all still dead
[Read the article: I'm younger than that now]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]This is just so much whistling past the graveyard, because in the end we're all still dead.
Gary, you dismiss out of hand the very thing that can give meaning to your life--the existence of God--so your "wisdom" is anything but; it's simple denial.
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Well said, anonymous
[Read the article: I'm younger than that now]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Nothing like self-absorbed baby boomers thinking they're the first and only important generation in the history of mankind. Just like when they discovered babies in the '80s and put all those stooopid "Baby Onboard" signs in their Beemers and Volvos, as if they were the first generation EVER to have babies.
Get over yourselves, baby boomers. You gave the world only one good thing: the Beatles.
PS. I write as someone born smack in the middle of the baby boom but who learned long ago that the universe doesn't revolve around me.
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a certain blindness
[Read the article: "Are We Rome?"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]This book betrays a certain cultural and class bias. For example, this sentence:
"America's Delta Force would fare no better in Saddle River, Brentwood, or Winnetka."
Yes, but how representative of America are Saddle River, Brentwood or Winnetka? Not very, I would argue. A member of Delta Force (or the military in general) would do just fine in 98 percent of the communities in America. The question is, how well would a resident of Saddle River, Brentwood or Winnetka do in those communities?
Also, the discussion of civic engagement also suffers from political bias and historical myopia. The era of Big Government is only about 70 years old, beginning with FDR's New Deal. That's not even 1/3 of our nation's history. Some of our great civic endeavors were in fact private affairs: the transcontinental railroad, the invention of flight, the railroad, the telephone--the list could almost be endless--were the results of private citizens with private capital pursuing good ends.
Now look at some government endeavors that went well: the Interstate highway system, the initial years of the Internet, um, and umm, and ... (Don't mention Social Security or Medicare; these systems are currently broken and doomed to completely fail if not fixed, like, 15 years ago.)
Finally, the author completely misunderstands the immigration issue. Very few people are against immigration per se; they do object to illegal immigration and borders so porous that any number of ordinary criminals and people who mean us great harm can simply walk into our country. Remember: the chief event in the fall of Rome was when the Vandals sacked the city because the Romans had lost the will to defend themselves. That is the chief problem of our culture today: people who underestimate the mortal enemy facing us and who have lost the will to defend themselves.
Curious that the author completely fails to see this parallel.
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No, the issue is
[Read the article: Bush and Cheney walk, too]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Spare me and everybody else your whining excuse of "He/She did it so it's okay if I do it too!"
The issue, I believe, is all the moaning and gnashing of teeth by Democrats over what is really a minor case when they were either (a) silent or (b) supportive of Clinton's pardoning a criminal who fled with his millions to live overseas but basically bought his pardon with those ill-gotten gains. It was also their support of Clinton for pardoning terrorists and murderers.
As someone else said, it's the hypocrisy.
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Not really
[Read the article: Bush and Cheney walk, too]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Bush and Cheney used lies to commit our nation to war and when they were exposed by Joe Wilson
Not really. Both the Senate Intelligence Committee and the British Butler Report showed that in fact Bush's statement in the State of the Union address was correct and that Wilson was wrong.
Wilson was also exposed as a liar by the Senate report, which is why the Kerry campaign dropped him like a hot potato.
Please let's not make a political hack and opportunist like Joe Wilson into something he's not.
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answer
[Read the article: Bush and Cheney walk, too]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]If Joe Wilson is a political hack and an opportunist...
... then why did the White House make his destruction a priority
But they didn't. As even Fitzgerald was forced to admit, the "leaking" of Plame's name came about accidentally during inside gossip by Richard Armitage.
No one was ever charged with this crime, because no crime was committed, at least with regard to how Plame's name became public.
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way overstated
[Read the article: Bush and Cheney walk, too]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]His [Bush's] involvement just hasn't been proved (or disproved). That's what Fitzgerald was trying to get at, and what Libby wouldn't let him have.
This is so over the top it needs a response. The only perjury Fitzgerald could pin on Libby was a differing recollection of a conversation with Tim Russert. That's a far cry from what you say here.
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oh, please!
[Read the article: Bush and Cheney walk, too]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]What Fitzgerald succeeded in convicting Libby of was the obstruction of justice in the investigation of a case of treason.
Oh, please. Enough with the paranoid, over-the-top accusations already! If treason was the crime, and Fitzgerald knew who the leaker was (Richard Armitage), why didn't he charge him with that crime?
You just make yourself look stupid with such ridiculous statements.
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mike in Seattle ...
[Read the article: Bush and Cheney walk, too]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]... is delusional, since nowhere did I mention Lewinski, McDougal or Whitewater.
Those LSD flashbacks are a bitch, ain't they?
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Commute vs. Pardon more realistically
[Read the article: Bush and Cheney walk, too]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]If Bush wanted to completely silence LIbby, he would have commuted the entire sentence, but he commuted only the prison portion. If Libby wanted to strike a deal with the prosecutor by talking, he still has plenty of opportunity to do that.
Your thesis really carries no weight in light of that.
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Not stated ...
[Read the article: GOP hawks' sudden conversion]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]... in this report (hey, it's Salon, after all) is that the Iraq Study Group recommended exactly the surge that is now going on and not being given a chance to succeed.