CORRESPONDENCE
Correspondence DANGEROUS LIAISONS It was heartening to read the articles by Jeffrey Gedmin and David Brooks warning your readers about the rise of the European Union and the danger it poses to...
...Perhaps...
...He is a preening, selfish, nearly invincible demigod...
...Nevertheless, I agree with Stelzer when he writes, "conservatives owe something to the deserving among those who have been adversely affected by market forces over which they have no control...
...Stelzer has provided a review of Buchanan's policies which I consider a much needed breath of fresh air...
...But persistence and determination in the face of ongoing ruin, whether on the diamond or the bloodstained plains of Asia Minor, is the stuff of another kind of hero which career champions can never be...
...No, the hero of the Iliad is Hector of Troy, who comes out and battles for his doomed city—day in and day out—throughout his more than ten years of competition, alone giving hope to the desperate Trojans alongside him on the battlefield and watching from beyond the besieged city's walls...
...But, how is it possible for a Republican to reach the voters of Steeltown, U.S.A., touting the virtues of free trade...
...The United Kingdom remains outside the euro-zone, but our government intends to abolish the pound sterling and adopt the euro as soon as domestic opinion allows...
...And in picking a role model, I'll take it and the long suffering underdog every day of the week...
...It is all the players who came back year after year only to be stomped by the Yankee juggernaut...
...Kagan has badly misunderstood the Iliad as only a Yankee fan could ("Joe DiMaggio, Baseball Aristocrat," March 22...
...There has been little appreciation in the United States of the significance of what is happening on this side of the Atlantic...
...The Duke Sniders, the Jackie Robinsons, the Ted Cronins, the Ted Williamses—most of whom eventually saw their cities razed of baseball and their teams carried off to the West like vanquished Trojans...
...Is what I'm for nothing more than a variation of "compassionate conservatism...
...As an overall political theory, the free trade ideas most associated with Adam Smith and the Austrian school are justifiably preferable to any other system of economic theory...
...Citing Joseph Schumpeter and the benefits of "creative destruc-tionism" in such areas would be disastrous for any candidate...
...Without the eventual participation of Britain, the euro will lack credibility and the European Union's quest for statehood will be impaired...
...DOUGLAS GRANE WESTERN SPRINGS, IL UNDERDOGS 1, YANKEES 0 In response to Donald Kagan's eulogy of Joe DiMaggio as an American Achilles and proper hero who drew out the best in all those around him, I believe Mr...
...In particular, the single European currency, the euro, is designed to help create a European superstate...
...Over the years, and in particular since the NAFTA debates, I have grown accustomed to, and agree with, conservatives' dismissing Buchanan's ideas on free trade as antithetical to the Republican party...
...Thanks to Stelzer for his, I hope, prescient piece...
...It is stipulated that free trade and globalization ultimately produce enormous efficiencies...
...March 29...
...Our Hectors are all the also-rans who could never quite measure up, but abjectly refused to concede defeat and came back each spring hoping that this would be the year they would finally knock off the damn Yankees...
...I don't doubt the heroism of Joltin' Joe, whose rings and records (both in the books and the jukebox) speak for themselves...
...DOUGLAS SMITH DEMOCRACY MOVEMENT LONDON, ENGLAND BUCHANAN'S BRIGHT IDEA Irwin M. Stelzer's article was not only fair in its analysis, but long overdue from a conservative publication ("Partly Right: Taking Buchanan Seriously," March 22...
...Achilles is not a hero, nor noble in any useful sense of the word...
...He knows his side will never actually beat the Achaeans, but that never stops Hector from soldiering on...
...It is a project devised and guided by unaccountable elites acting with little or no regard to the opinions of their national electorates...
...Correspondence DANGEROUS LIAISONS It was heartening to read the articles by Jeffrey Gedmin and David Brooks warning your readers about the rise of the European Union and the danger it poses to America and to Europe itself ("The New Europe—Menace or Farce...
...These are the men who would then spend the next six months giving their all to yet again not quite do so...
...And that's not DiMaggio or any other member of a dynasty...
...Too many European leaders have chips on their shoulders about America and are willing to eliminate their own national democracies in the drive to create a world power to rival the United States...
...The stakes could hardly be higher...
...Is there not a way for Republicans to bridge Buchanan's outreach to America's displaced production workers with the benefits of free trade...
...DAN MORENOEE CHICAGO, IL...
Vol. 4 • April 1999 • No. 29
