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Scrapbook THE VAST RICHARD METJON SCAIFE INQUIRY You have to feel a little sorry for Robert Kaiser. Not long after being dethroned as managing editor of the Washington Post last year, Kaiser was...
...And if the price of peace is that we abandon them to the cruelty of their oppressors, then the price is too high...
...Nonetheless, Zoellick was forced to choose—CSIS or Bush...
...He knew that leaders were expected to make hard choices in war...
...Sweeter than many here will ever fully appreciate...
...The Post is a far better paper than it was ten years ago, having wrung itself dry of the paranoid anti-conservatism that marred it in the 1970s and '80s...
...And former senator Sam Nunn and others on the CSIS board will be eating their hearts out, though probably not at very many state dinners...
...But the absence of freedom is worse, they know that too...
...That would be Richard Mellon Scaife, the conservative philanthropist who has funded hundreds of conservative projects over the last 25 years...
...Would that the president had half that regard for the responsibilities of his office...
...That is a fact of this war that is undeniable...
...the attacker demanded...
...God...
...Think tanks exist, after all, to influence administrations and their policies—and Zoellick is helping shape the policy of what may be the next administration...
...Here, for the record, are excerpts from John McCain's speech on the morning of May 4, shortly before the Senate deep-sixed the McCain-Biden Kosovo resolution: "Let me identify for my colleagues the price paid by Kosovars for the president's repeated and indefensible ruling out of ground troops...
...Cassie Bernall, whose courageous life and death were memorably chronicled by Matt Labash in last week's Weekly Standard, was not the only young Christian attacked in Littleton, Colorado, for affirming her faith...
...Schnurr recalls saying a little more, then crawling away...
...well, you know...
...They were popular once before, in another war, and I personally witnessed how effective they were...
...Also he used to drink too much, went to Yale, and protects his privacy from people like Bob Kaiser...
...A venerable foreign policy think tank in Washington, the Center for Strategic and International Studies, has driven away its president, Robert Zoellick, because he's advising Republican presidential candidate George W. Bush...
...That is a pretty hard thing for a father to do, but he did it because it was his duty, and he would not shrink from it...
...And it's probably hard, even for the bosses, to tell their former managing editor, after a year of hard labor, that he's come up with a dud...
...Like Bernall, Schnurr was in the library when Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold burst in...
...Yes, peace is a wonderful condition...
...Schnurr suffered nine gunshot and shrapnel wounds—and lived...
...I ask my colleagues, in this late hour, to put aside our reservations, our past animosities, and encourage, implore, cajole, beg, shame this administration into doing its duty...
...In it we learned that Dick Scaife seldom speaks in meetings, is not particularly bookish, and has endured a complicated personal life (oh...
...You'd never know it, though, from the wandering, blandly written story that Kaiser and the Post dumped on their readers last week...
...the things we could tell you about the complicated personal lives of some Post editors we know...
...He has been able to displace, rape and murder more Kosovars more quickly than he could have if he feared he might face the mightiest army on earth...
...Hit by a wild spray of bullets and shrapnel, she gasped, "Oh my God...
...Well, bombing pauses seem to be an idea in vogue...
...Do You Believe in God...
...And shame on the president for creating it...
...But next time Kaiser sets out on one of his "in-depth exposés," somebody should warn him that he's in danger of exposing only himself...
...That may have saved her, though she left the hospital with four bullets still lodged in her abdomen...
...So you'd think, while he might be a vain fellow, surely he's at least a smart one...
...The Kosovars appreciate it...
...So why did the Post choose to run it...
...Neither Stanford nor Hopkins has objected to their advisory roles...
...They know it well...
...Give peace a chance...
...Why...
...I dare say, some of the years that we had lost were attributable to bombing pauses...
...We could have told Bob Kaiser that the same thing would happen to him—lots of time (his) and money (the Post's) wasted, all to inform his readers that Richard Mellon Scaife is a conservative philanthropist who has funded hundreds of...
...Kaiser's story, in other words, was a quite conspicuous flop...
...No, I don't have much regard for the diplomatic or military efficacy of bombing pauses...
...This was probably owing to the fact that it was delivered on behalf of a lost cause—a Senate resolution urging the president to use "all necessary force" to win the war against Slobodan Milosevic—and because it's considered poor form to interrupt the beatification of Jesse Jackson...
...you name the news organization, it's done a Scaife hit piece...
...McCain's Moment One of the finest congressional speeches on Kosovo received almost no media coverage...
...Not long after being dethroned as managing editor of the Washington Post last year, Kaiser was left with a stalled career and little to do...
...And the result of all this expense of time and money has been unvarying: Richard Mellon Scaife is a—are you ready?—a conservative philanthropist who has funded hundreds of conservative projects over the last 25 years...
...I will not support a bombing pause until Milosevic surrenders, not a moment before...
...Scribblers from every major paper in America have broken their little pencils trying to expose Scaife's life story and to locate there the focus of evil in modern American life...
...Do you really believe in God...
...It said so, right there in the Post...
...As a matter of fact, it was only when bombing pauses were finally abandoned in favor of sustained, strategic bombing that almost six hundred of my comrades and I recovered our freedom...
...Think Again Talk about dumb...
...Zoellick is a brainy, politically astute veteran of the Reagan and Bush administrations and would seem to be perfect for the job of CSIS chief...
...The Scrap-book wouldn't dare make something like that up...
...Shame on the president if he persists in abdicating his responsibilities...
...If Bush wins the presidency, Zoellick may well get a top job...
...Oh my God...
...The Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, the Washington Post (more than once...
...There was also Valeen Schnurr, an 18-year-old senior at Columbine High...
...But shame on us if we let him...
...The thing came in two very long installments—14,000 words in search of a point...
...My father gave the order to send B-52s— planes that did not have the precision-guided munitions that so impress us all today—he gave the order to send them to bomb the city where his oldest son was held a prisoner of war...
...In public, Kaiser actually wears his Phi Beta Kappa pin on his lapel—really, he does...
...Perhaps Kaiser's piece was one last indulgence in the paper's weird old obsession...
...All this we learned, and yet more: Did you know, for example, that Richard Mellon Scaife is a conservative philanthropist who has funded hundreds of conservative projects over the last 25 years...
...I do believe in God, and my mom and dad have taught me about God," she said...
...Milosevic was so certain of the limit to our commitment that he felt safe enough to widely disperse his forces...
...Now, what is left to us, as our war on the cheap fails to achieve the objectives for which we went to war...
...One of the attackers immediately confronted her...
...They are living in its absence, and it is a horrible experience...
...Just seconds earlier, Schnurr had seen Bernall get shot in the head when she answered yes to the same question...
...He chose Bush...
...So he set about digging into what he presumed to be the fons et origo of Hillary Clinton's fabled "vast right-wing conspiracy...
...he said...
...He did it because he didn't believe America should lose a war, or settle for a draw or some lesser goal than it had sacrificed its young to achieve...
...Some think he would be a perfect deputy Treasury secretary or even White House chief of staff...
...Yet, Schnurr answered the same: "Yes, I believe in God...
...Other Bush advisers include Condoleezza Rice, the provost of Stanford University, and Paul Wolfowitz, who heads Johns Hopkins's School of Advanced International Studies...
Vol. 4 • May 1999 • No. 33
