On Pakistan, Al Gore, and more.
Send Them Packing Iwholeheartedly agree with Bill Roggio's "Al Qaeda's Pakistan Sanctuary" (April 2). Not only does our pro-Pakistan tilt fail to jibe with our overarching goal of spreading...
...And what a game it was, particularly for a four-year-old like me when he learned that with a toss of the dice he could become the owner of the Pennsylvania Railroad...
...Indeed, our ultimate victory in the current war may depend far more on our ability to contain Pakistan than setting up a democracy in Iraq or preventing Iran from getting a nuclear bomb...
...A Gory Situation Regarding Duncan Currie's "Al Gore's Fevered Imagination" (April 2): What was Al Gore thinking when he called on the 535 members of Congress to fight global warming like the 300 Spartans at Thermopylae...
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...With property here on the Alabama coast selling for $30,000 per waterfront foot, even a 10-foot rise in sea levels will put me right on Mobile Bay, where my solitary acre will be worth some $6,000,000...
...How much more than a game Monopoly was when it sunk into some of our less-than-middle-class minds that money could be made and a bit of happiness achieved by adhering to some of the game's life rules...
...Pakistan is the epicenter of the forces of Islamic fundamentalism, terrorism, and nuclear proliferation, which is the textbook definition of a country in need of regime change under the Bush Doctrine...
...Not only does our pro-Pakistan tilt fail to jibe with our overarching goal of spreading democracy worldwide, but it also ignores the fact that Pakistan is at the center of the global war on terror...
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...Gamely Lessons My earliest experience of Monopoly, the game ("Men of Property," by Erin Montgomery, April 2), was joltingly disturbing, until my father's sardonic smile and the teasing laughter of other adults around our kitchen table led me to realize that his "going to jail" was merely part of a game...
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...I can have a wharf and everything...
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...The 300, of course, though they put up a valiant effort, were vanquished...
...Al Gore has given me great expectations...
...April 30) states that the "Night Stalkers" are an Air Force unit...
...Joshua Slomich, USAFR Chadds Ford, Pa...
...With the departure of the irreplaceable Peter Steiner from the pages of The Weekly Standard, my door, sadly, will be a lot less funny...
...Not Funny Regarding The Scrapbook's "A Fond Farewell" (April 9 / April 16): I have clipped cartoons depicting the foibles of our political class from various newspapers and magazines for years, and taped them to my office door...
...During the depression of the 1930s, Monopoly helped to nurse our family and millions of others out of some otherwise gloomy times...
...Correction Max Boot's "Can Petraeus Pull It Off...
...Monopoly helped to teach me that prudential decisions, involving a little bit of gambling on the future, can lead to a life of security—a valuable lesson that I hope our children are still learning today...
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Vol. 12 • May 2007 • No. 34
