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CORRESPONDENCE Hey, Hey, Ho, Ho I just read the article "The Men Who Knew Too Little" by Laurie Mylroie (TAS, November 2003). It is clear that it is time for George Tenet to go. The CIA has...
...My liberal acquaintances revere modern art...
...PIERRE LEGRAND Baton Rouge, Louisiana The Spectator is back...
...Tyrrell and others are terrific...
...This includes admitting that, far from winning the Cold War, we are faced with an uglier, more dangerous version of it, withmany of the same players as before playing the game, only this time under different rules...
...I leave in late 2004 to teach in Taiwan before feminism catches up with the Chinese...
...Mylroie has exposed the CIA for what it has become: a bureaucracy full of incompetent political appointees left over from the Clinton administration...
...JOE PARKER TAIT Jefferson, Texas FEBRUARY 2004 THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR 7...
...The current magazine price will limit purchases...
...NANCY ANN HOLTZ Beverly, Massachusetts One for Three I would like to comment on something Mr...
...The best way to keep the messages out is to charge a little for Internet access...
...If the Cold War was about defeating Communism and Communist states, then it certainly is not over...
...Even Tom Bethell is tied in knots...
...AARON T. ISAACS Plainview, Texas A-t-1::ig Ring of Fire Tom Bethell ("Democracy," TAS, November 2003) writes regarding women, "They tend to lack the civic virtue of impartiality...
...ROBERT A. SLOAN Farmington Hills, Michigan I was thrilled with your November issue, specifically Seth Lipsky's review of Johnson's Art: A New History and Alfred Regnery's review of Charles Murray's book on arts and sciences from 800 B.C...
...There is no organized government that is our enemy...
...Keep up the good work...
...Comparing our current wartime CORRESPONDENCE situation with that of the Vietnam War era, he states that "There is no longer a Soviet Union or a Cold War...
...As for Murray, he should have extended literary art to about 1965 to include Flannery O'Connor...
...MARK PETTIFOR Goshen, Indiana Hizzoner George Neumayr ("Midland Ministers to the World," TAS, December-January 2004) left out that Judge Samuel Isaacs was the first mayor of Midland...
...Otherwise, I am enjoying your new format...
...Mylroie and Codevilla gave absolutely stunning looks into our war on terror...
...I think there is ample evidence in current world events to come to the conclusion that the Cold War never ended, but only took on a different form...
...I lost my last teaching job when I admitted to a roomful of feminists that I had chosen their modern readings with an eye to political correctness...
...When one looks at Russia's history of providing arms and training to the current list of "bad guys" in our War on Terror, and when one considers Putin's recent consolidation of power, using former KGB staff to form his inner circle, one cannot help but be concerned about the direction Russia is headed...
...It is as much a part of the profile of the 6 THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR FEBRUARY 2004 AK-47 as the distinctive curved magazine...
...A word should also be put in for Tom Bethell who opined that women should not have been given the vote...
...Because of the location of the barrel of this gun, it has a conspicuously tall front sight...
...Regnery said in the November issue ("Failure Is Not an Option...
...to 1950...
...The November trilogy on Iraq—Mylroie, Sherwood, and Codevilla—is the best account I've read anywhere of what's going on over there...
...BILL TUCKER Brooklyn, New York Bad Aim I'm sure you have already been informed that your cover artist inadvertently faded out the front sight of the AK-47 held by the Iraqi police officer on the November 2003 cover...
...Keep it up...
...STEVE KERCKHOFF Carlsbad, California For goodness sakes, Laurie Mylroie...
...I have always detested Picasso, so hooray for Johnson's father...
...Nothing in it worth reading, except for a few laughs...
...The CIA has completely embarrassed President Bush and the country...
...Russia supplies tanks, fighter jets, ships, missiles, nuclear power plants, and many other weapons to countries that pose regional, and, yes, even global threats to stability and peace, such as North Korea or Iran...
...Well, to change the title of the Meatloaf song a little bit, one out of three ain't bad...
...And this time they have an advantage they didn't enjoy before—they are battling a Western foe that has fallen asleep and is lost in its dreams of a false victory...
...I have to say that your November issue of TAS outdid even the blockbuster Weekly Standard issue of the "MEMO," my previous best magazine...
...Though I obviously will burn with him in male-chauvinist Hell, I applaud his unrepentant honesty, insight, and guts...
...It is time for journalistic giants such as yourselves to see the big picture...
...I think a lower Internet access fee will yield more far more...
...JUDE WANNISKI Morristown, New Jersey The November issue is the finest issue of any magazine I have read...
...VICTOR MASLOV Danville, New Hampshire Back and in -k I'm glad the magazine is back...
...TAS is a parody...
...While this may seem like a trivial matter, the gun looks so "naked" without its front sight, that it is the first thing I noticed when I saw the cover...
...It makes the excellent articles even more fun to read...
...There's just no substitute for TAS...
Vol. 37 • February 2004 • No. 1
