Correspondence
Correspondence BUGS: NO SCWEWY WABBIT I MUST TAKE ISSUE with the characterization of the Euro-Democrats as "Bugs Bunny Democrats" in William Kristol's editorial ("The Bugs Bunny Democrats," Aug....
...Gedmin is right on track: It is to our credit that we have not caved and allowed the terrorists to define how we live...
...21 / Aug...
...This is the age of being better safe than sorry...
...It defies logic that that simple point is so misunderstood...
...But tying the carrot metaphor to Bugs Bunny is unfair...
...To Elmer Fudd's clueless, misdirected assertion that "Somethin's scwewy awound here," Bugs is quick to point out that it "could be you, doc...
...Granted, Bugs Bunny does show patience with his antagonists, but only up to a point...
...He has demonstrated the willingness to eschew political correctness and directly confront his antagonists' intellectual failings...
...L.J...
...WILLIAM KRISTOL brilliantly analyzes the naive pacifism of contemporary liberalism, which focuses on foreign policy carrots to the exclusion of sticks...
...BEING WARY JEFFREY GEDMIN's "Letter from London" (Aug...
...MATTHEW BERKE Madison, N.J...
...Once the threat to his security becomes clear, he is willing to take action...
...Although I realize Kristol's analogy is based on Bugs Bunny's diet, the carrots that the "European wing of the Democratic party" is so fond of offering are all the "EuroDems" have in common with the discerning and determined Bugs...
...Perhaps even "Daffy Duck Democrats...
...28) included some astute perceptions, particularly his closing thought about the West's "hedonistic" lifestyle...
...Bugs always frustrated and defeated those trying to destroy him...
...Just ask Elmer Fudd, Yosemite Sam, Giovanni Jones, Marvin the Martian, and others who experienced Bugs's unique, and hilarious, forms of payback...
...21 / Aug...
...JOSEPH WT...
...If we let our guard down, or fail to follow a lead that may prove false, we face further horrific acts...
...Alas, these findings were not as hyped in the media as was the absence of a quick find...
...I doubt that any of the EuroDems have the grit to follow such an example...
...usually begins his exposition of their follies for all to see...
...Bugs Bunny's bravery is a matter of record...
...A little bit Brooklyn, a little bit Bronx (as Mel Blanc, who supplied the voice, once put it), Bugs embodied America's fighting spirit at its best...
...PUGH Haddonfield, N.J...
...Bugs Bunny survives by outwitting his opponents...
...Marine Corps awarded Bugs an honorary officer's commission...
...The fact is we now live in a world where we have to be suspicious...
...Materials were found scattered in the region that could have been gathered to produce WMDs in a short period of time...
...Now, "Elmer Fudd Democrats" would certainly be an appropriate description...
...To think that WMDs would be found in a warehouse neatly organized and wrapped in a bow is ridiculous...
...His probing catchphrase, "Eh, what's up, doc...
...Our political leaders and foreign policy elites could learn a lot from him...
...In recognition of his fighting spirit, the U.S...
...Gedmin's mention of "the failure to find weapons of mass destruction," however, warrants a bit of qualification...
...MACK Coppell, Tex...
...A member of the greatest generation, he took on World War II archvillains such as Herman Goering and even Adolf Hitler himself...
...He has been known to confront his tormentors with a definitive, "Of course you realize, 'DIS means war...
...But I think we can be sure that there is not a Bugs Bunny among them...
Vol. 11 • September 2006 • No. 47
