CORRESPONDENCE
Correspondence THE FATE OF THE JEWS Charles Krauthammer's article "At Last, Zion" (May 11) is one of the most important I have come across. Krauthammer has given me an enormous amount of food for...
...ABBY NEWBOLD VIGNERON CAMBRIDGE, MA...
...It's a useful, even symbiotic relationship...
...Women won't have equal rights if we don't accept equal responsibility for our ideas and actions...
...President Johnson was wrong to get us into the war by misleading the American people about the events in the Tonkin Gulf...
...GARRISON EL PASO, TX RETIRED, BUT STILL A MESS Noemie Emery's review of ex-Representative Pat Schroeder's 24 Years of Housework . . . and the Place Is Still a Mess was devastating ("Malice in Wonderland," May 25...
...Since we are an Israeli publication, we thought it prudent, to protect Broder, to allow him to use a pseudonym...
...McManus is correct to claim that The Wall is the final victory of the antiwar movement...
...It is fundamentally wrong...
...He has put into words what I have not been able to articulate ("We Must Remember This," May 25...
...I cannot and will not accede to their view of the war, even in as small a way as visiting The Wall...
...Some of us even speak the local languages and go outside of the embassies...
...I can only hope that history will understand as well...
...It was not wrong for us to try to save the people of Vietnam from the Hanoi regime, and we were not mistaken to think that is what we were doing...
...In turn, The Jerusalem Report leans heavily on analysts like myself to make sense of the mass of facts it accumulates...
...And yes, we also meet with embassy officials...
...But we rarely inflate our importance by claiming that to do so puts us at "considerable personal risk...
...Krauthammer has given me an enormous amount of food for thought and makes our present course of policy even more disturbing to me...
...Goodman's changing the subject does not get Jonathan Broder off the hook for plagiarism...
...McManus is wrong about one thing, however...
...But this dishonors him, not us who fought...
...A visit would trigger a storm of rage I could not handle...
...His own reporter, Jonathan Broder, acknowledged in our telephone conversation that he drew from my book to an improper extent without attribution...
...and he was wrong in the way he fought the war...
...But this is not the issue at hand...
...I doubt I ever will...
...Why the nastiness...
...We veterans do not stand alone...
...HENRY A. KISSINGER NEW YORK, NY A PLAGIARIST'S PLAGIARIST In reference to "Jonathan Broder's Plagiarism of the Week" (Scrap-book, May 18): Broder was sent to Syria by The Jerusalem Report...
...Goodman implies that journalists are better people than analysts...
...Perhaps so, but we who "sit in an ivory tower and pontificate" do also sometimes travel to such scary places as Syria, Iraq, and Iran...
...When I met the veterans of Desert Storm, to a man they understood, respected, and honored what we did in Vietnam...
...Part of that responsibility includes subjecting our ideas to the kind of critical review so brilliantly practiced by Emery...
...We saluted each other...
...If the American people are dishonored by this war, it is because of the way we ended it—not because we fought it...
...I am happy that McManus, and at least a few others outside the brotherhood, understand the emotions The Wall raises in old soldiers...
...It was designed by people I do not understand, and who do not understand me...
...I, for one, refuse to visit The Wall...
...Another point: Yes, I learn a great deal from fine news publications like The Jerusalem Report...
...on a personal level, I am aghast at the vindictiveness and blatant dishonesty of your report...
...HIRSH GOODMAN THE JERUSALEM REPORT JERUSALEM, ISRAEL DANIEL PIPES RESPONDS: Why is Hirsh Goodman attacking me...
...Unlike those who sit in an ivory tower and pontificate about the world, Broder traveled thousands of miles and put himself at considerable personal risk to bring first-hand information to our readers...
...To say, as Emery does, that Schroeder's book "helps explain why feminism, as Schroeder's kind defined it, has come apart at the seams" makes me think that Emery agrees with this...
...I wept bitter tears when we abandoned the people of Vietnam, and I am still not able to think about this calmly...
...During his visit he met extensively with embassy officials who provided him with the information Pipes claims Broder plagiarized...
...McManus has put a foundation under my feelings...
...P.J...
...SONGS OF THE OLD My heartfelt thanks to Bob McManus...
...Since Pipes is an academic and gleans his facts from what we publish, you seem to have put the cart before the horse...
...I have always resented the fact that certain activists have claimed ownership of feminism to such a degree that many women who espouse feminist principles are wary of calling themselves feminists...
...I will mourn the fallen alone, with the dignity they deserve...
Vol. 3 • June 1998 • No. 38
