Correspondence
CORRESPONDENCE To the Editors Tip of the iceberg? Having never read the Unabomber's manifesto, I cannot speculate on his sources ("The FBI Comes Calling," September 26). But I can categorically...
...Are they needed...
...Larry Korb's ideas for defense, cited in the editorial, are worth considering...
...As an example, since the Russian submarine fleet no longer poses a significant challenge to the U.S...
...We are incapable of waging a small police action, much less a full-scale war...
...Finally, Mr...
...Our question was not ideological but practical: What sort of defense do we need and how much should it cost...
...My favorite teacher and mentor was Sister Saint Luke, a talented artist (she had studied under John Singer Sargent...
...China and India both have nuclear capabilities and larger armies than ours...
...With two superpowers to be concerned with, "tin-horn dictators" were less apt to act...
...Our current president seems to be intent on converting our military into police forces...
...Specifically, we asked whether the United States needs to spend $265 billion in 1998 for defense-50 percent of total discretionary budget spending-nearly a decade into the post-cold war era...
...Rather, it raised the question: What is the cost of an adequate defense...
...Navy's (see, Jane's Fighting Ships, 1996-97), and since the Chinese submarine fleet is even less a threat, why shouldn't the United States cancel plans for the Navy's new attack submarine, saving $14 billion in the next five years, without compromising defense...
...it has not been this weak since before the Korean War...
...The need for a two-war defense capability did not disappear with the demise of the Soviet Union...
...Navy be classified as weaker than at any time "since before the Korean War...
...security, we could save $100 billion on defense in the next five years alone...
...We'd like to go at least part way...
...CARROLL COSTELLO ESTES Winston Salem, N. C...
...But I can categorically say that he could not have turned to a more trenchant analysis of the future of technological civilization than that of Professor Victor Ferkiss...
...taxpayer want to waste such sums...
...So the plot thickens...
...Ferkiss's style is lucid and persuasive, but it could hardly be called inflammatory...
...In a strikingly similar way to the Unabomber, he severely criticized the American model of technological development then being pushed by the Shah...
...PAUL J. REISMAN Fallbrook, Calif...
...It brought to mind a meeting my dad vividly recounted to my mother...
...I remember a long interview on the Mac-Neil-Lehrer News Hour with the Ayatollah Khomeini when he was still in exile in Paris...
...Many nations still have biological and chemical weapons capable of destroying large populations by mere terrorist attacks...
...People and weapons are required, and they are costly...
...Moreover, Russia and Ukraine still have missiles aimed at our country...
...Again, Senator (Continued on page 29) CORRESPONDENCE (Continued from page 4) Charles Grassley (R-Iowa) has uncovered billions of dollars' worth of waste in the military's procurement procedure...
...Continued on page 30) (Continued from page 29) Our editorial underscored our concern for the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, and asked skeptically whether present U.S...
...Pace Mr...
...Korb argues that without risking U.S...
...The editors reply: Our editorial did not suggest that an adequate defense doesn't cost, or that all is right with the world...
...Reisman, by no stretch of the imagination is the U.S...
...policy does enough in that regard...
...She despised doing this-it was not art to her-but it brought a substantial amount of money to her order, so some good came of it...
...It seems that he and his brother, both physicians, had attended a reception for Philadelphia Archbishop Denis Dougherty...
...The Navy can no longer operate effectively...
...Would that the spotlight could now fall on Ferkiss's crowning classic, Nature, Technology, and Society-Cultural Roots of the Current Environmental Crisis (New York University Press...
...My dad, in telling the story, said almost wonderingly, "And this is the man whose father my father fished out of the river...
...Some members of Congress have been lobbying to manufacture nine more of the temperamental planes, at a cost of $27 billion...
...LEO HAIGERTY Logansport, Ind, Defense needs are real The September 12 editorial entitled "Indefensible" is itself indefensible...
...Maybe we have only touched the tip of the iceberg...
...While it would be ideal to be in a position to ignore national defense, our safety rests upon an adequate military...
...as young people they had been from the same area in Pennsylvania and knew each other, though our family (Costello) was in better circumstances than the Doughertys...
...But our superpower status is currently almost as great a farce as is Russia's...
...Only thirteen properly placed multi-targeted warheads could annihilate this nation...
...according to Government Accounting Office figures, the Department of Defense acknowledged $18 billion worth in 1996 alone...
...was at its strongest...
...We have no means of transporting forces quickly to an area of conflict...
...At Mount Saint Joseph Academy in Chestnut Hill, where I attended school, we were occasionally graced (?) with the cardinal's presence...
...On approaching His Eminence they were greeted with a cool glance and "To what do I have the honor of this visit...
...If anything, the world is more dangerous now than when the U.S.S.R...
...As long as Libya, Iran, and Iraq retain their anti-American attitudes, we are in constant danger...
...military the mirror image of the debilitated Russian Army, nor can the twelve-carrier-fleet U.S...
...This is wasteful and the efforts, to date, have been largely unsuccessful...
...Detective work that tries to link similar ideas can have its pitfalls...
...Similarly, at present the Air Force has a fleet of twenty-one B-2 Stealth bombers...
...We cannot have well-motivated forces as long as troops are overworked and under constant stress while we are at peace...
...Does the U.S...
...Gray immanence Reading John T. McGreevy's review of Charles Morris's American Catholic (September 12), I could not refrain from smiling...
...REV...
...She painted many portraits (lifesize and more so) of His "Immanence," as such likenesses were in great demand (every rectory had to have its own grandiose icon...
Vol. 124 • October 1997 • No. 18
