Public Nuisances: Peace Now / What's New?
Tyrrell, R. Emmett Jr.
PUBLIC NUISANCES by R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. Peace Now In April Our Wartime President bombed Yugoslavia, Iraq, and Bulgaria. Earlier he had dropped bombs on Afghanistan and the...
...No entertainer C, lives by the maxim that the show ,.,..: ---- must go on when in center stage he finds his pants won't stay up and he's coming down with food poisoning...
...The John Chancellors and Walter Cronkites have set the mood, speaking in sonorous tones of how Watergate indicates the "corrosive influence of private money on public elections...
...The world is filled with lunatics who have unconventional ideas...
...Bill Clinton is America's first war resister to play at being Franklin Delano Roosevelt rendezvousing with destiny...
...Surely the New America Foundation could rustle up a stenographer to jot down the enlightenednations on Earth...
...16 July 1999 • The American Spectator...
...Yes,and behind all those masks you are all liberal Democrats playing masked politics...
...As the full stupidity of his entry into the war and of our execution of it becomes manifest, it seems to me that it is time to call for a cease-fire...
...The other day when talking about the Littleton massacre he lunged into an explication of our Balkan War...
...Without Security Council...
...And I am a sorely-pressed consumerist...
...Rosenthal called for a cease-fire weeks ago, and he is no dove...
...How very nice to meet you, I am a feminist...
...American air power is pitilessly bombing the defenseless in the name of those whom this administration has rendered undefendable...
...Then he blubbered "we have worked hard in Africa to work with other African forces to build an African Crisis Response Initiative...
...As one reads down the list of those associated with the New America Foundation, one gets the impression masked politics is being played there too...
...It is not so surprising that they labor to hide their politics...
...There has been the New American magazine, the New America movement, the New American Revolution, New America this, and New America that...
...And spare me this bilge about "unconventional ideas...
...The bombing of Bulgaria was an accident...
...The United States has never fought a more stupid war...
...How about a few six-year-olds...
...Were any of these New Americas really new...
...Face the facts...
...He increasingly sounds like he's losing his grip...
...Yet practically any time I have encountered a stentorian voice claiming to have gone "beyond liberalism and conservatism" I have discovered an intellectual on the make or a liberal who has lost faith in his convictions...
...His bewildered military aide was left to hoof it back to the White House past crowds of Washington's colorful street people, the most potent attache case in the world under his arm and a prayer in his heart...
...Interestingly, Mr...
...Doubtless history will record more...
...That digressed into a complaint about the plight of women in Afghanistan...
...Why not some teenagers...
...never relied on a more dubious strategy...
...The homeless Kosovars will soon be hating us as intensely as they hate their erstwhile Serb neighbors...
...Going back a century or more intellectuals and intellectualoids with a glint in their eye have been booming "New America...
...But is this really young...
...Halstead's foundation is gathering its funding from Silicon Valley executives, one of whom, Eric E. Schmidt of Norvell, expresses his impatience with "the left-right debate...
...After his last meeting at the NATO summit the Boy President sped off to the White House for an as-yet unexplained assignation...
...Said President Boris 25 YEARS AGO IN The American Spectator Congress, spurred on by the always seductive cry of "reform," is about to put government in the business of financing federal election campaigns...
...Also in April, Our Wartime President became the first American president to lose the "football," the attaché case containing the country's nuclear launch codes...
...Earlier he had dropped bombs on Afghanistan and the Sudan...
...Finally, in early May, Our Wartime President bombed China's embassy in Belgrade, despite that country's generous support for his 1996 presidential campaign...
...Charlie Chaplin at the height of his comic powers could not have imagined such rich material...
...Clinton's condition is worse...
...So let us pause to put Bill Clinton's Balkan War into historic perspective...
...What Washington and the nation are in critical need of is sound ideas...
...What is somewhat surprising is that intelligent Americans think it is possible for politically engaged writers to be innocent of liberal or conservative politics...
...The group's chairman is James Fallows, once a Democratic speechwriter, long a liberal moralist...
...The New America Foundation's president, a Mr...
...Those are the kinds of utterances emitting from the leaders of the most powerful C an any good come of something called the New America Foundation...
...To be sure, after decades of ideological posturing strict ideological conformity is stultifying, in fact sterile...
...But the justice of the endeavor has diminished as the displacement of the Kosovars from their homes has increased and the suffering of Serb civilians spreads...
...Senior fellows" include Margaret Talbot, a liberal from a famously left-wing California family whose writings are mildly left-wing but certainly not "unconventional...
...The dozing Russian big shishkis looked suddenly alert...
...She writes for the left-wing Village Voice, does commentary for National Public Radio, and is national correspondent at the cyberspace magazine Salon that President Bill Clinton proclaims as his favorite...
...Hand the mess over to the diplomats...
...Recently this new Washington think tank comfortably ensconced itself near Dupont Circle, where its triumphally young adepts are even now burning incense to each other's prodigiousness...
...Of course the fishiest of the New America Foundation's boasts is its claim to "break out of the traditional liberal and conservative categories...
...Only Edward Kennedy attaches more significance to the crusade...
...Such impudence...
...As progressives in Congress are wont to say, "So what...
...Meanwhile in Moscow, the head of the other superpower—when your strategic arsenal is nuclear you remain a superpower in my book— is equally prone to bizarre outbursts...
...It has never bungled its way into a war more artlessly...
...And on to "we grew up in the segregated South...
...Rosenthal, the press has yet to fasten upon the amazing incompetence of this war, along with its foolhardiness and fundamental immorality...
...The New America Foundation, according to the New York Times, enhaloes itself as the think tank that "will introduce younger voices, break out of the traditional liberal and conservative categories and produce unconventional ideas...
...That soft-porn magazine is also edited by, if memory serves, Margaret Talbot's brother, who is also coy about his politics...
...Following that self-congratulatory note, let me add that people of all ages are also impatient with politicians and intellectuals who juggle political terminology and hide their ideology behind masks: "I, my friend, am a mere environmentalist...
...Another senior fellow mentioned is Debra Dickerson...
...In such a conformist intellectual climate as ours there is no alternative...
...It has Adapted from RET's weekly Washington Times column syndicated by Creators Syndicate...
...The Boy President sounds like this several times a week...
...If the New America Foundation is all that new it will summon voices from the nursery, diapers and all...
...Without United Nations...
...I say it is about time we quit this war and divert Our President's attention to matters less dangerous to our national security, for instance, his intern program...
...Thence to the inner self, where "inside each of us there are vulnerabilities to dehumanizing other people...
...He recognized the full dimension of Clinton's blundering...
...In the annals of American history how many listings will we find under the chipped and peeling rubric "New America...
...We'll answer immediately...
...And it has never failed in its goals so rapidly...
...Peter J. Rusthoven "On Subsidizing Hot Air" JULY 1974 14 July 1999 • The American Spectator Yeltsin on May 7 during a simple award ceremony, "No one —just let Clinton, a little bit, accidentally, send a missile...
...And Yeltsin blustered on: "We don't want...
...By the 1970's with the rise of hypochondria among the sophisticates, there was a New American cuisine, perhaps even a New American deodorant...
...Accordingly its "younger voices" are writers in their thirties and twenties...
...He is paraphrased as saying that Silicon Valley's values have much to do with meritocracy, innovation, and "as little government interference as is feasible...
...This president belongs outside the White House leading peace vigils...
...04 What's New...
...They are all markedly liberal with the presence of one somewhat offbeat conservative...
...Those of us who have been saying "I told you so" since our big lovable lug of a president first began selling off the White House silver know that these preposterosities are but the ones that got reported...
...That too is admirable, for the above-mentioned writers are for the most part uneasy about economic change, technological innovation, global markets, untrammeled immigration, and "as little government interference as is feasible...
...Our forces were aiming at Belgrade and hit Sofia...
...The embarrassing consequences should have been anticipated...
...The Boy President's giddy flop into hostility with Yugoslavia and possible cold war with China was beyond my calculations...
...cooings of a babe in its mother's arms...
...Three months after the American political system passed on an opportunity to dispose constitutionally of the most inept and corrupt president in American history, the nation is engaged in a war that is provoking the Chinese to hostile actions and the emotionally unstable President Yeltsin to rave...
...Not surprisingly they abandon themselves to the illusion that they compose something that really is new in the land, and special...
...To unleash a war on a sovereign state...
...Then there is Michael Lind, a writer from the right most famous for criticizing conservatives and for holding Luddite views...
...Our cause, though poorly thought out, was just...
...Ted Halstead (age 3o, politics indescribable), tells the Times "people his age have removed themselves from politics and policy...largely out of distrust of political leaders and political institutions as well as impatience with the constricting right and left labels...
...Though many of us Clinton critics predicted that foreign affairs would reveal the forty-second president for the humbug that he is, I doubt that any of us could have envisaged the full calamity that the Boy President has visited on the Balkans...
...For him to be engaged in the disciplined and exacting business of war is asunthinkable as an animal-rights activist leading a fox hunt or boning a deer...
...Once again, however, Clinton's unsurpassed vulgarity and gauchness leave the press speechless...
...And finally "that's what this whole issue with gays is today in America!' Call an ambulance...
...It could only be possible in a time of barbarism...
...That is all to the good and helps to explain why the technical innovations of his industry probably mark as historic a moment in commercial history as has ever been known...
...America has been introducing "younger voices" for years...
...With the exception of a handful of columnists led by A.M...
...Believing that once our flag was committed we had to achieve victory, I at first stood with John McCain...
...He goes on to say that he does not demand that the thinkers at the New America Foundation conform to the thinking in Silicon Valley...
Vol. 32 • July 1999 • No. 7
