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CORRESPONDENCE Ach So! Subject: the style of your magazine. Is this what the Americans call an independent journalism? I hope this kind of newspapers will never come over Europe! -RAINER...
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...J. HANSEN Los Angeles, California 76 August 1.998 • The American Spectator What's in a Name...
...I thought Ben would have realized I was playing a character when I selected a question about First Ladies because I was "one of those right-wing conspiracy nuts that Hillary's trying to warn the country about...
...I was told by a tax attorney for a white shoe Manhattan firm that foreign partnership reports go down an IRS black hole in Philadelphia...
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...Moreover, it is not realistic to give NATO any more than moderate credit for Cold War results...
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...is reassuring Europe, stating that the latter is now on notice (unlike WW I and WW II, respectively) that America will intervene therein to oppose strife or war...
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...This continued until someone wrote "Stop writing this [censored]"—and named the author...
...Does every member country take this seriously...
...Chiles is called "Clintonlite" here because of his constant blind following of national policy...
...RAINER WEISHAAR Aachen, Germany Salon Suckers After reading about the online magazine Salon in the June TAS curiosity got the better of me and I went to the Salon site on the Web...
...A much more serious affront to the court than Clinton lying about a consensual sexual affair...
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...We all must defend our nation and support its laws in word and deed, no matter how trivial the situation seems...
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...Using only this realm of fancy he would have us stake American money and blood everywhere in Europe...
...Senate's endorsement of the admission of Poland, Hungary, and the Czech Republic...
...However, prudence demands that we keep our guard up, not that we actively pursue an infinity of maybes and what-ifs...
...For the record I am a card-carrying conservative Republican who has voted against major GOP candidates only three times in 24...
...O'Sullivan need carry no fidelity to the Constitution, but it's a travesty for Americans, and especially conservatives, to feel the same way...
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...it hasn't needed one with NATO around...
...MICHAEL LATORRA El Paso, Texas Purist I love your magazine and your Internet site...
...W. WESNER Tucson, Arizona Hissed Off In the last few months you have asked principled Democrats twice to consider dealing directly with President Clinton's misbehavior...
...For example, the student daughter of the Argentine Air Force general in charge of logistics smuggled a portable radio stuffed with plastic explosive into her father's office in the Air Force Headquarters, the Edificio Condor (where I also worked...
...The school uniformly admired the Chinese Cultural Revolution and would, no doubt, have joined Pol Pot's gestapo given the chance...
...And so on with nearly all the wars and interventions America has undertaken this century...
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...It was a way of saying that this person was part of the class which was oppressing the world and probably deserved to die...
...The voters have elected Clinton twice knowing up front of his predilection to bimbo eruptions and shady money-raising...
...Clinton, but you will have to agree with me about Mr...
...After three such citations the child may lose his driver's license or face some other penalty...
...ROBERT VAN PEER Chatsworth, California Freedom's Rings Regarding Ben Stein's aphorism about freedom ("A Golden Age for Thugs," TAS, May 1998), I have a slight disagreement...
...RAY WISHER Cape Coral, Florida Forever Young In his disquisition on "Older Men and Their Women" in your April 1998 issue, your correspondent Taki cites his ancestor Aristotle's claim that "the ideal age for a couple is when the man is double the woman's age plus one year...
...Interventionists and those supporting a military now spread across seventy countries do the same thing...
...The unconstitutionality of this act amazes the large majority of the police officers I work with...
...O'Sullivan's laundry list of European hot spots he uses to justify expanding NATO in fact works against him...
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...They are like political pit bulls who never give up and never forgive...
...True, it all worked out okay...
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...Other foreign business communities were likewise decimated...
...What a truly sick country we have become...
...Maybe it doesn't want to try...
...I heard them and the song on a radio show 12 August 1998 • The American Spectator called "The Bob and Tom Show...
...Clinton is a sociopath, a character assessment well-known to the staff of TAS: he has neither social conscience nor sense of moral responsibility...
...They pinned their hopes on outsider candidates like Perot...
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...Clinton's behavior in his deposition by attorneys for Paula Jones ("He Talked Too Much," TAS, June 1998...
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...EUGENE SMITH Boise, Idaho I read Steve Chapman's piece about the politicians wanting to help children...
...HARVEY A. LEVE Jakarta, Indonesia Classical Gas There really is a song about propane sung to the tune of "Cocaine" ("Hooked on Propane," by Mark Steyn, TAS, June 1998...
...He may or may not have been the only one to so vote at College V; however, there was a very small but vocal Republican group centered in UCSC's Stevenson College...
...ELLIOTT A. COHEN New York, New York "Sold on NATO: The Case for Expansion" by John O'Sullivan (TAS, June 1998) is a long, involved and tedious attempt to justify both the existence and expansion of NATO, following on the U.S...
...Then the officers will write the child a $25 civil fine citation for the possession of said product...
...It was expensive, but at least easy to remember...
...For starters, your readers might consider President Clinton's domestic, election politics...
...He also asks: If not NATO, what...
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...Those people are ignorant "s—bags" that have their voice heard in every other medium...
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...Some of them were still living on campus in November 1972...
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...The article proceeds on the premise that the Treaty was perfect at its inception...
...Imagine what the party would do to Moynihan if he did speak up...
...Of course Europe has no sufficient entity for maintaining its own peace...
...Finally, it is evident that O'Sullivan has made no inquiry into why NATO expansion was initially undertaken...
...Some comments need to be made to set the record straight...
...NATO shouldn't be expanded, it should be dismantled...
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...KEVIN SYSYN Hancock, New Hampshire Sweet Talk As a long-time TAS subscriber, I've known the highs and the lows—the highs on those glorious days when TAS arrives in my mailbox, and the lows after turning the last page, contemplating the seemingly endless tundra of time before the next issue arrives...
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...It turned out, however, that he was a rather prominent student government type...
...Yet recent history suggests that a traditional Republican presidential candidate might not benefit from Gore's tech woes...
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...Intervention in WWII, the Good War, initiated by the Lend-Lease Act, led to the revival of an evil at least equal to the Nazis...
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...O'Sullivan tenders the notion that by and through NATO expansion the U.S...
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...and the benign/albeit tacit warning leveled at Russia relative to its possible future endeavors at seeking hegemony in Central and Eastern Europe...
...Back in the obstreperous sixties when I was an even more audacious smarty pants writing the occasional piece for Punch I used my name, Mildred Brocklehurst...
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...is not a member of the European Union (EU), therefore, American sway would be diminished or disregarded if the responsibility for military security in Europe were left to the Europeans...
...The article does not tell us about the very grim commitment in the North Atlantic Treaty creating a huge U.S...
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...It shows in how many spots Americans may have to fight and die for the most minor of reasons...
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...He sees salvation for Europe in treaties and alliances, apparently forgetting that it was those very things that drew the world into both world wars...
...This is a more fundamental pursuit than engagement for engagement's sake...
...the need for NATO's bureaucracy to enlarge its role...
...Correspondence (Continued from page 13) and published a regular pamphlet entitled Occam's Razor...
...Old Ari and Old Taki both had it wrong...
...LUIS VAZQUEZ New York, New York Setting the Tone I note that a number of correspondents to your letter column think the writings in your brilliant journal seem to be a bit too angry to be effective...
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...After the world wars, it palmed off a bad coin on America, a coin with nihilism on one side and socialism on the other...
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...Incidentally, the use of the dollar sign in place of the S in someone's name (i.e., $tein) was a common way of branding someone a capitalist pig, even if one had to use a plural of the name to do so (i.e., Wilson...
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...The USSR collapsed and we were not sucked into another European war...
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...During the years that I have subscribed to and read TAS I have often found it very quaint (and, to be honest, at times frustrating) that TAS refuses to print off-color words, preferring instead to use hyphens to fill in the blanks...
...He could as well do the same with Germany, given its past in this century, especially if he insists on wandering in the realm of hypotheticals based on history...
...We have lost more freedom to our own government, than we are ever likely to lose to a foreign power...
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...LANCE WILLIAMSON Salt Lake City, Utah Boy Milhous This is in response to your referring to President Clinton as the Boy President and as William Milhous Jefferson Clinton...
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...Nixon in the same sentence...
...In his writings, he grabs for the throat and squeezes...
...But it was not created by some all-knowing deity, but by garden-variety government employees, just like we have today...
...TAS was accurate in its appraisal of this Internet smut provider...
...In his followup to his introspective memoir Radical Son, he turns the flamethrower on Bill Clinton and the courtier intellectuals who defend his every move...
...He did it four times—when he was 30, again when he was 55, then when he was 64, and finally at age 81...
...The "mean-spirited," entertaining Mr...
...Military Group, Argentina, 1975-1977, I was most interested in Matthew Steven-son's "Cleaning Up After a Dirty War" in your June 1998 issue...
...After a family was murdered in the state park adjacent to UCSC, some student plastered the main Stevenson College men's room with graffiti in several-inch-tall letters using that $=S device and declaring how"right on" this action was...
...We cannot foresee the consequences of intervening in other nations' wars...
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...Buchanan says he'll declare whether he's running for president next spring...
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...Re: Anne Treadwell's response to my smarty pants letter about HRC & soccer (Correspondence, TAS, June 1998): Gosh what a difference a letter can make...
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...HARVEY MALLORY Richmond, Virginia I find your choice of title "He Talked Too Much" rather ironic considering you "Clinton haters" are most often seen accusing the president of not saying enough...
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...Is this form of inverse (de facto) Realpolitik, however, worthy of a more exemplary America...
...It appears, in the final analysis, that it is people like you who are the deceivers, liars, and implyers, not the president...
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...MILDRED L. BROCKLEHURST WOODS Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario Shop Talk It is difficult for me to understand why Michael Craig is surprised by Mr...
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...With the Cold War won, we need to establish some distance from Europe...
...Meanwhile, it appears that he's going to get away with most of the low- and high-j inks undertaken either on his behalf or with his collusion dating from November 1992...
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...Thus American intervention in WVVI prevented the truce the exhausted European powers were crawling toward and all but guaranteed WWII...
...DAN BRASS Cleveland, Ohio An Art Form I read with some interest James Bovard's article on that paradigm of secrecy, the IRS ("The IRS Mess," TAS, June 1998...
...It is by a group called Pinker and Bowden (spelling might not be correct...
...Too many of us, in my generation and the next, have already seen more of war (and its tragic results) than we care to, in Europe, in the Pacific, in Asia, and elsewhere...
...FREDERIC H. SMITH III Peachtree City, Georgia No Kidding Steve Chapman's "Child Abuse" (TAS, June 1998) has no doubt infuriated all the child sensitive snivelers in the White House and Congress and will be met with wringing hands in Beltway editorial offices...
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...The American Spectator • August 1998 77 hateful Clinton-lovers who invariably try to defend the indefensible by attacking the unassailable...
...In particular, you suggested that a Democratic "Howard Baker" should step up and make the necessary move on the rascal(s...
...In retirement I was rereading Niccol6 Machiavelli's The Prince, and ran across something written 500 years ago that vividly brought to mind Clinton and the associates he has gathered around him: And the first opinion which one forms of a prince, and of his understanding, is by observing the men he has around him...
...In Argentina, starting in the late sixties, the Communist movement was typified by increasingly violent attacks against the government and other "agencies of oppression...
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...The crucial factor was the inevitable failure of Communism, brought on by its own inherent weaknesses...
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...Consider the people that Clinton has had around him such as Lasater, Tucker, the McDougals, Hubbell, Brown, Espy, Livingstone, and many others...
...Then I find myself looking at trash like Salon and realize it is being used by the White House and the "main-stream" media to impugn the integrity of TAS...
...DAVID BROWN via the Internet Every Vote Counts Ben Stein is mistaken when he states that he and his wife were the only two people who voted for Nixon at the University of California, Santa Cruz in the 1972 election ("A Golden Age of Thugs," TAS, May 1998...
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...By 1975, when I reported for duty in Buenos Aires to take over what amounted to a logistics support mission to the Argentine Air Force, the American business community had evaporated after a series of kidnappings and terrorist raids on American enterprises operating in Argentina...
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...You asked that they do it either for the benefit of the country or for the benefit of the Democratic Party...
...RICHARD E. HALL USMC 1941-46 Palm Bay, Florida The case for expanding NATO is even weaker than I thought if John O'Sullivan's comments are its best defense...
...I haven't heard any expressions of gratitude from our north Atlantic allies, so the answer must be in the negative...
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...Craig pardons himself for discussing and writing about what was a secret deposition, under gag order, by declaring that others had revealed these details...
...In another shocking example, the general in charge of the National Police (Gendarmaria) was warned that his daughter had a university friend, another girl, who was connected to terrorist elements...
...Three were in their late forties...
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...That document's provision for a "common defense" is no more subject to a wide open interpretation than the general welfare clause is...
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...O'Sullivan needs to acknowledge that while we should keep our eyes open and our powder dry, it is just possible that countries can change for the better...
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...These and similar actions on the part of terrorist forces I am certain led to some of the excesses that characterized the government's campaign against them in the "Dirty War...
...The only candidate on the scene now who would stand to benefit from an anti-politician, anti-global mood is the economic populist Pat Buchanan...
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...Craig writes, "Clinton had the distinction of being the first sitting president to be deposed in civil litigation," as if he were the one responsible for this disgrace...
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...ROBERT L. PLUNKETT Lancaster, California Shown the Money It's nice to know that my performance on "Win Ben Stein's Money" was memorable enough to merit so much space in Ben Stein's column (TAS, May 1998...
...ANDY GREGO Richland, Washington NATO No Go While political advocate John O'Sullivan favors enlargement of NATO ("Sold on NATO: The Case for Expansion," TAS, June 1998), perhaps your readers might consider countervailing points...
...The first to make available this new custom-search service...
...It's ridiculous and so typical of many diplomatic agreements...
...Does it really threaten our national interest if the Basques withdraw from Spain, and do we have the right to step in there and in a dozen other places on that 10 August 1998 The American Spectator riven continent...
...obligation...
...Watching those small minds blather and fuss and accuse you of "hate" is a good reminder of who the real haters are...
...But, no sale...
...These attacks were reported in the Buenos Aires Herald, the English language newspaper whose editors are cited in Mr...
...What is America any more...
...Nation's Business "Quotesmith saved us time and money...
...Clinton, he is one of the greatest presidents of the twentieth century...
...This is the government at work: ABT is contracting with local law enforcement agencies to hire their off duty officers for $25 an hour so the officers will sit at locations and wait for kids smoking tobacco products to come by...
...The instructions, both written and spoken, regulating the use of emergency oxygen masks, clearly states that adults are to don the masks first and then to place the child's mask, thereby allowing a clear thinking adult to take charge of the child...
...Soldiers, sailors, airmen, pilots, and police are essential to protect freedom in extreme situations, but day to day it is up to all citizens to protect their own freedom...
...The list could go on ad nauseam...
...Big Brother is in full swing down here in Florida...
...Maybe by the time of the next presidential election the voters will have come to realize that character does count...
...This group included future congressman John Doolittle (Continued on page 76) Now in paperback...
...As an art dealer, I have my own take on the IRS: tax evasion by my colleagues is massive and wide open...
...The IRS sees nothing...
...The Democrats are the party that hasn't gotten over Alger Hiss (remember the statement by a left-winger that "even if Hiss said he did it I still wouldn't believe it...
...Therefore, I do not feel that President Clinton should be impeached, as voters seem to have bought into the idea that "character is not an issue...
...THOMAS B. DAVIS via the Internet 78 August 1998 ' The American Spectator...
...QUOTESMITH ® .4143E COR P ORATION www.quotesmith.com Ad Code: TAS 8/98 The American Spectator • August 1998 thought, and systematic indoctrination of students was practiced by openly Communist/Marxist faculties, supported by Cuban and Soviet money and resources...
...Ross NELSON Casselton, North DakotaI enjoyed John O'Sullivan's reasoned pitch for the expansion of NATO...
...It would be nice if our grandchildren drew a "bye...
...However, it is not the case that America is "isolationist in the abstract" or by "instinct...
...1195 —World magazine 160 pp AVAILABLE ONLY THROUGH SECOND THOUGHTS BOOKS...
...Stevenson fails to acknowledge equally "dirty" tactics on the part of the Cubanand-Soviet-inspired guerrilla movement...
...REILLY JONES Portland, Oregon Don't Cry for Argentina As a former Chief, Air Force Section, U.S...
...He frankly admits that there is no "clear and present danger" and only conjecture and hypotheticals to justify expansion...
...Chiles, is arresting our kids, handcuffing them, taking them into custody, and jailing them for smoking cigarettes...
...I have not been disappointed with a single issue since that time...
...Persistent rumors might lead one to think the IRS is a bribable agency...
...This makes him innocent...
...It is also a lesson in good manners to see that TAS, unlike the liberal magazines, actually publishes letters from its opponents...
...He adds, "But as my father told me, Old Ari had it wrong...
...NATO had nothing to do with the collapse of Communism because it had nothing to do with the economics or politics within the USSR...
...A comprehensive Year 2000 bailout bill could easily top $100 billion in direct spending and tax breaks...
...It has long been my contention that media people, from Craig to Dan Rather, and Jones's lawyers, should have been held in contempt of court by Judge Wright and made to reveal where they received "illegal" information and/or what good excuse they had for trafficking in such information...
...We must question the relevance of the American public's support for expanding NATO...
...Yet, one does not have to be a surrogate for Pat Buchanan, or a neo-isolationist, to declare that Europe should not be looking to the U.S., from time to time, to put its own continental house in order...
...A world of competing superpowers is far more adaptive and robust than a stagnant slide into a global monoculture which is the natural result of placing safety above all...
...I was impressed...
...Take NATO away and Europe will either develop one or continue to suffer from low-grade conflicts...
...Nixon being a disgrace...
...he perceives himself the "cleverest little boy in the class," so one would anticipate his efforts to put something over on counsel for the plaintiff...
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