Correspondence
Doing the Job in Bosnia When German chancellor Otto von Bismark said, "The Balkans are not worth the bones of a single Pomeranian grenadier," he was expressing a policy President Bill Clinton and...
...2), that I find it difficult to sympathize with him for the treatment he received at the hands of the Congressional Black Caucus...
...And after he joined, he was treated so badly, only a fool would have continued to take it...
...Ridiculous...
...After it was burnt for trying to do just that in Somalia, the last thing the Clinton administration would agree to is a repetition in Bosnia...
...Nor do you mention editors who've recently joined the Inquirer from the Times or the Washington Post: assistant to the executive editor Peter Kaufman and associate managing editor/metro editor Philip Dixon...
...If a fair description discredits the series, that is the Inquirer's fault, not mine...
...And, frankly, the life prospects of the parents are a good deal brighter too...
...Your article is an ideologically motivated smear posing as a critique...
...Peace has been restored on the basis of partition along ethnic lines, with the Bosnian Croatians and Serbs allowed a "special relationship" with the nation-states of Croatia and Serbia...
...As Judge Louise Arbour, the new chief prosecutor of the International War Crimes Tribunal, told the New Tork Times last May, "the prime responsibilty for arresting those charged with offenses in Bosnia lies with Balkan leaders who signed the Dayton peace agreement, not with a NATO-led international force...
...Perhaps I am morally challenged and should be read out of conservative ranks, but I cannot fault her...
...It may not be one of NATO's "military tasks," but it's fair to call it a "mandate" just the same...
...In my experience with newspapers, it is unprecedented...
...c. You cite the journalists who left the Inquirer for the New York Times, neglecting to mention the dozen-plus who turned the Times down...
...These children are, from personal experience, very loving, gentle, trusting human beings...
...Down Syndrome Dilemma Tucker Carlson's poignant report is a wake-up call for America ("Eugenics, American Style," Dec...
...Sure enough, she was carrying a Down Syndrome fetus...
...The paper backs the series 100 percent, and your inability to deal with the conclusions of the series stiffens that support...
...Maxwell King Editor and Executive Vice President The Philadelphia Inquirer Christopher Caldwell responds: Not a single one of King's quibbles concerns a factual matter...
...f. Finally, your criticism of Barlett and Steele's series as political correctness is preposterous...
...Those of us who have the courage to stand up for Republican principles will, in the long run, be better off for it...
...William R. Hawkins Washington, D.C...
...This time the test came back negative, she finished the pregnancy, and she now has a normal, happy toddler...
...They have been reluctant to exercise that responsibility...
...e) My conclusion was based on several interviews...
...25) had to scramble hard before coming up with the obligatory cheap shot: Savio's "legacy" was the degradation (which "he could not have envisioned") by subsequent leftists of the ideals he stood for—regardless of his lifelong opposition to such degradation...
...Nancy Jancourtz Eastchester NY Amarried woman of my acquaintance in her early forties decided to have one more child...
...Harry G. Summers, Jr...
...So do many dozens of King's employees...
...Donald Lazere Baltimore, MD Speaking Franks-ly Imust say, with regard to your item on Gary Franks (Scrapbook, Dec...
...Such a mandate was remarkably absent from the military tasks laid out in the Dayton Agreement...
...Doing the Job in Bosnia When German chancellor Otto von Bismark said, "The Balkans are not worth the bones of a single Pomeranian grenadier," he was expressing a policy President Bill Clinton and The Weekly Standard should ponder ("Doing the Job in Bosnia," Dec...
...Is King implying there is some kind of dissent-quashing public-relations offensive going on inside the paper...
...Without disputing Labash's or other conservatives' accounts of post-FSM corruptions of New Left causes, one can still ask whether those have been any more a debasement of humanist education than the above functions of the service-station university...
...My only accusation of political correctness was directed at the Inquirer on King's watch...
...Finding against free trade and open immigration—long enthusiastically supported by liberals— is the opposite of political correctness...
...The child who lives has a much longer life expectancy and much brighter life prospects than the child who might have lived...
...d) What a remarkable philosophy for a newspaper editor...
...Unfortunately, this is not how Clinton approached the "congress" of Dayton...
...Nor is the truth of NATO's "mandate...
...Col...
...I report controversy because it is newsworthy...
...Lewis H. Hammond Louisville, KY A Note On Pulitzer Bait Abrief reply to your recent hatchet job on the Philadelphia Inquirer and the economic series "America: Who Stole the Dream...
...c)I named seven journalists who had left the Inquirer for the Times...
...But Clinton, with the urging of The Weekly Standard, wants more...
...f) I never accused Barlett and Steele of political correctness...
...Perhaps the Creator has placed them in our midst purposefully, to spread the humanity that our society has otherwise lost...
...Bismark had no ambitions in the Balkans other than stability and was thus willing to support whatever outcome brought peace...
...If you think that, why is your own publication plunged repeatedly into controversy...
...Far from working to throw out "old bores like Plato and Aquinas," Savio and then Free Speech Movement leaders wanted to make those authors' ideas relevant to contemporary society...
...He wants to push the hostile factions together in a utopian "single, multi-ethnic state" ruled from the Muslim capital of Sarajevo—the very thing that triggered the three-sided war in the first place...
...Where did the editors get the idea that [the NATO force known as IFOR] "was given a mandate to arrest Balkan war criminals for prosecution by an international tribunal...
...Until I see a similar level of detail on King's part, I'll assume the number of those who "turned the Times down" is considerably lower than he claims...
...FSM leaders protested the degradation of Thomas Jefferson's model of schooling for critical citizenship into the modern American university, a bordello-like football factory, frat-house playpen, and trade school at the expense of undergraduate liberal-arts education...
...It's also true, as Col...
...d. You dredge up every recent controversy involving the Inquirer as if controversy per se were a sign that a publication was doing something wrong...
...How Col...
...Look, if you don't like raw fish, stay out of sushi bars...
...Their philosophies and approaches are so different, he should not have joined the caucus in the first place...
...Thus, you resort to distortion to make your point...
...Reading Carlson's article, I was reminded of perhaps the most cynical statement I have ever heard about human nature: We all have the strength to bear the misfortunes of others...
...Pulitzer Bait in Philly," Oct...
...Carlson's piece gives substance to the idea that we mere human beings continue to replace God's will with our own...
...If you are black and supportive of the Republican philosophy, you are made out to be in league with the devil...
...William A. Rusher San Francisco, CA Robert L. Beisner responds: J. Edgar Hoover made his accusation, citing an "informant," against Dean Acheson, John J. McCloy, Henry Wallace, and others (including Alger Hiss) on May 29, 1946, in a confidential memo to his friend and director of the Reconstruction Finance Corporation George E. Allen...
...2): Exactly where and when did J. Edgar Hoover charge that Dean Acheson, John J. McCloy, Henry Wallace, "and other estimables were part of 'an enormous Soviet espionage ring in Washington...
...b. You cite one paper that decided not to run the series, conveniently overlooking the three dozen that did run it...
...At the Congress of Berlin, the Balkan map was redrawn on these utilitarian grounds...
...She got pregnant and, given her age, had an amniocente-sis...
...Reflect on Clarence Thomas...
...Rather than focus on American interests, he embraced his own liberal values as the basis for military intervention...
...In spite of our professed religiosity, we disavow the commandment, "Thou shalt not kill...
...Franks should know that black persons who dare to depart from the tunnel-vision views of the Establishment are considered Uncle Toms, or worse...
...e. You claim that "the brass" at the Inquirer doesn't back the series, offering only an interview with an assistant editorial page editor, and the quote itself does not support your claim...
...But why should my "inability to deal with the conclusions of the series" affect the staff's feeling on the matter one way or another...
...Carlson is correct when he writes, "Children with Down Syndrome are . . . uncommonly gentle human beings...
...Summers can so confidently defend such a situation—and deride as "weepy-eyed" those who find it disgusting—isn't clear from his letter...
...But to take the points one by one: a) My motivation was to describe...
...She promptly had an abortion and shortly thereafter became pregnant again...
...b) The incident I referred to—the Seattle Times's decision to discontinue and repudiate the series after running one installment—is surely newsworthy...
...So far, so good...
...14) : a. Your motivation is obvious: Discredit the series by Donald L. Barlett and James B. Steele without addressing their conclusions...
...I would expect the weepy-eyed New Republic to obfuscate the issue in the name of a higher cause and to champion "a manhunt for war criminals," but for The Weekly Standard to do so goes against what I thought the magazine was all about...
...John M. Levy Blacksburg, VA The Spy-Ring scoop Regarding Robert L. Beisner's "Dean Acheson's Alger Hiss" (Dec...
...NATO forces do have the authority to detain Balkan war criminals and deliver them to the international tribunal— an authority explicity granted them, on paper, in Dayton...
...Bowie, MD The EDITORS respond: True, Balkan signatories to the Dayton accord have always had "prime responsibility" for the arrest of war criminals in their midst...
...savio: a Noble leftist Confronted with the death of Mario Savio, a man of uncommon integrity, eloquence, and modesty, Matt Labash ("Mario Savio's Legacy," Nov...
...Summers points out, that the Clinton administration has been unwilling to pick up the slack, which is why we have news reports of known war criminals passing unmolested through U.S.-manned NATO checkpoints in Bosnia...
Vol. 2 • December 1996 • No. 14
