STUDY THE TRIBES
Correspondence STUDY THE TRIBES STANLEY KURTZ is to be congratulated for his article on Middle East tribal culture (“I and My Brother Against My Cousin,” April 14), as is Philip Salzman for...
...He saw how easy it is for a well-meaning legislator to go to bat for a crook—persuaded every step of the way that his intervention against those overbearing regulators was justifi ed by the need to keep the government from riding on the back of the defenseless entrepreneur...
...All letters should be addressed: Correspondence Editor THE WEEKLY STANDARD 1150 17th St., NW, Suite 505 Washington, DC 20036...
...Hopefully more Americans will take the time to study the important work of scholars like Stanley Kurtz, Philip Salzman, and Bernard Lewis...
...Tucker is right that “bad old nuclear power” is one of the few options we have to both minimize pollution and deal with climate change, and does not also result in the unintended consequences of taking food from people’s mouths or using large quantities of the land they live on...
...Stelzer rightly insists on overcoming the dogmatic free market advice of Phil Gramm as central to McCain’s confronting the fallout from Glass-Steagall’s repeal...
...A large part of the limited success of General Petraeus is due to the fact that he listened, at least on the military front...
...The world recognizes the necessity of nuclear energy, while in our country we are playing games that adversely affect the price of food...
...MCCAINOMICS I FOUND IRWIN STELZER’s assessment of John McCain’s options and predilections for economic policy generally compelling (“Embrace Your Inner Teddy Roosevelt,” April 21...
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...These technologies, although quite useful in appropriate settings, have little connection to their exaggerated claims and are not supported by agricultural, engineering, and societal realities...
...But there is one crucial element of John McCain’s personal experience that Stelzer did not bring into the discussion...
...Tubbs teaches at King’s College in New York City...
...PAUL DONOFRO Marianna, Fla...
...There are currently over 30 new plants under construction, with most of those in Asia where economic growth is in the double digits...
...John McCain saw the savings and loan meltdown close up...
...NUCLEAR NECESSITY ALTERNATIVE ENERGY sources with their interest groups and enthusiasts have found a level of popularity unsubstantiated by their technologies’ performance, as William Tucker demonstrates in his article “Food Riots Made in the USA” (April 28...
...Upon receiving each issue of THE WEEKLY STANDARD, his political cartoon is the fi rst thing I look for, always a great drawing and always capturing the essence of the message by his skillful illustration...
...And if his experience with the Keating Five was not enough to make the lesson sink in, what hope can we have that the sensible and sober advice in Stelzer’s column will do the trick...
...We didn’t listen then...
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...Armed by our wealth through oil, the jihadists see no reason why their culture should not overtake ours inevitably, and they have been proven very patient...
...McCain saw the whole mechanism up close and personal...
...Scholars like Bernard Lewis of Princeton were very clear and up front about the kind of culture we were dealing with years ago...
...Finland and France are building reactors, and Russia has fi ve in the works...
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...JOHN CARRAGEE Wayne, Penn...
...What is truly telling is that the rest of the world is not waiting for the United States to make up its mind to start building the fi rst nuclear plant in 30 years...
...We overlook the fact that Arab culture can be sophisticated and violent at the same time...
...Left unaddressed, however, is the critical issue of American ignorance of the subject...
...What did he learn from the experience...
...Precious few are listening now...
...MICHAEL CORRADINI Madison, Wisc...
...WAYNE G. SKAGGS Wimberley, Tex...
...There once was a man named Charles Keating, and an enormous government bailout of the savings and loan industry was a result of the same forces of moral hazard Stelzer describes at play today...
...A CAPITAL CARTOONIST IT WAS NICE to see THE SCRAPBOOK recognize Michael Ramirez in the April 21 issue for receiving the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for editorial cartoons...
...Americans, many in the highest government positions, just cannot seem to accept the notion that there can be a culture so different that violence is a part of everyday life...
...Did he see how one really needs to use regulation to cure market imperfections...
...CORRECTION RYAN T. ANDERSON’s review “Caution, Children” (April 28) incorrectly identifi ed David Tubbs, author of Freedom’s Orphans, as a professor at King’s College in Cambridge...
...Correspondence STUDY THE TRIBES STANLEY KURTZ is to be congratulated for his article on Middle East tribal culture (“I and My Brother Against My Cousin,” April 14), as is Philip Salzman for his book on the subject, Culture and Confl ict in the Middle East...
Vol. 13 • May 2008 • No. 33
