Correspondence
Gel with it Staten Island, N.Y. To the Editors: Though your magazine often adopts a didactic tone, for too long now Commonweal has not been instructing or teaching but just dull. It was...
...America's failure of nerve and its inability to overcome the Vietnam syndrome also play a role...
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...Yet no military victory or political settlement can match the moral power that stems from America as the beacon of democracy in the world, first cited by Alexis de Tocqueville...
...windy, fatuous, self-admiring, and illogical...
...It was once the case that when it arrived in the mail I could anticipate a few hours of interesting reading, but for some months now I have not been able to find much...
...The implicit reason is that Serbia's victims would resort to the same crimes against humanity that Serbia is charged with...
...p. 8, Shiong, Rothco...
...we're talkin' Madonna and Rambo...
...Articles by Catholics explaining why they are Catholic are platitudinous...
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...Military victory in the Gulf War did not rid America of this syndrome, for it was denied moral victory in the name of democracy...
...Such media-created personae are forming another generation...
...stjepan g. mestrovic The writer is professor of sociology at Texas A & M University...
...From the editors: On one point, our correspondent misreads the editorial...
...God help US...
...Post-Vietnam America is too cynical about its own motives or the motives of other peoples to fight for freedom and democracy any longer...
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...p. 9, The River Ran Red: Homestead 1892, Univ...
...Neither the Kurds nor the Bosnians are evenly matched with their oppressors, even after their oppressors have been or might be bombed by the West...
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...David Carlin's column and the book section stand up, and your editorial commentary is usually good, but the articles are not...
...I guess I'm not crazy after all...
...JOHN BRANIGAN A light dawns Chestnut Hill, Mass...
...2:11 September 1992 Commonweal CORRESPONDENCE (Continued from page 2) Quayle was right in identifying the TV character "Murphy Brown" as an influential role model for impressionable viewers...
...There are numerous challenging problems in the church today...
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...The West bombed Iraq, and even if it had "finished the job," and killed Saddam Hussein, the Gulf War would still have been a failure...
...We did not suggest that Serbia's victims would commit crimes against humanity if they could, but that if Serbia is deprived of tactical superiority the defenders of Bosnian independence would be able to engage their attackers on a more equal footing...
...BEN birnbaum Bosnia's plight College Station, Tex...
...To the Editors: Your editorial on the current political quagmire caused by the war in former Yugoslavia ["No Happy Outcome," August 14] is a sound analysis...
...11, 13, 15, 17, 19, 24, 28, Franklin McMahon...
...If America could find herself again, and get over Vietnam, there would be a New World Order...
...Tribalism is not the only sinister force that is dampening hopes for a new world order...
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...To be sure, the West is charitable, and keeps the Kurds, as well as the citizens in Sarajevo, barely alive, with humanitarian aid...
...To the Editors: It was only after I began to read Margaret O'Brien Steinfels's review of Roger Rosenblatt's book on abortion [June 19] that I realized I've been waiting for years for someone to point out that his "MacNeil-Lehrer" essays are "I'm sorry, Madam, but I'm afraid that we don't have anything that has a happy ending...
...The Bosnian government as well as the Kurds looked up to America as the North Star that would guide them to freedom, but both peoples have been abandoned to new clones of Hitler...
...And we're not talkin' Mother Teresa and Oscar Romero...
...This is because the West in general but the United States in particular refused and continues to refuse to give moral, political, or military support to the democratic aspirations of Hussein's enemies...
...Commonweal needs a tune-up from banality...
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...Apart from your editorials, one finds none of them explored in your pages...
...They range from mediocre to dull, have little to do with religion or the debates going on in Catholic intellectual circles...
...To the Editors: I thoroughly enjoyed David Carlin's comments on Dan Quayle [July 17...
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...I would propose different reasons why such bombing would fail, and none of them is military...
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...It claims that even if Western powers bombed Serbian positions, such action would not end the killing...
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