Correspondence
Correspondence THE BEST DEFENSE IN THE WAKE of the slaughter of 5,000 people on Sept. 11, drawing a distinction between the essential and the trivial is, as Michael S. Greve correctly notes, the...
...He resembled every headshot on the "Most Wanted Terrorists" list that had just been released by the president...
...There were even a few men standing...
...I sat with the others on the worn Naugahyde and kept one eye on the door...
...Bill Clinton . . . well, we know what he did and didn't do...
...When I arrived, every single chair in the old, uncomfortable section was taken...
...11 tragedy I had to go to the hospital for testing before some minor surgery...
...The waiting area houses a newly constructed, plush entertainment section with deep sofas and easy chairs, a television tuned to CNN, and a coffee and hot chocolate bar...
...I was no renegade...
...George W. Bush flew jet fighter planes in the Texas Air National Guard...
...Dressed entirely in black, he was wearing a fanny pack which, I was later assured by the woman next to me, must be "filled with anthrax...
...I thought the hospital was tremendously busy, but when I entered the room I saw only one man sitting in the new waiting area...
...District Court for the District of Columbia, the groups argue, among other things, that the program's Alaska-based launch facility "is located in a relatively untouched environment that provides habitat for endangered and threatened species...
...A contingency we must prepare for is attack by ballistic missiles...
...During WWII, Admiral Gunther Lutjens commanded the battle group Bismarck, which was led by the world's greatest battleship at that time, and feared by the British Royal Navy because of its ability to sink at will the dwindling number of British freighters traversing the Atlantic—Britain's slender and terribly strained lifeline...
...5), David Brooks mentions that, before being elected president, neither Bill Clinton nor George W Bush "had performed much in the way of military service...
...Two weeks before the terrorist attacks, the Natural Resources Defense Council, Greenpeace, Physicians for Social Responsibility, and an array of smaller environmental and arms control groups sued the Pentagon, demanding that it prepare a new environmental impact statement before beginning work on a missile test range in the North Pacific...
...After a difficult chase that even involved American patrol planes (despite the fact that we were officially neutral at the time), the British hounds finally brought down the wounded Kriegsmarine stag, and Lutjens, in the tradition of brave naval commanders, went down with his beloved ship...
...POLICE, POST-ATTACK CHRISTOPHER CALDWELL should not feel alone in his desire to police his surroundings ("Casual," Nov...
...Gwynn Oak, MD...
...This is a grossly inappropriate attempt at equivalence of the sort vigorously advanced by the Gore campaign in the 2000 election...
...A week after the Sept...
...They drove away...
...BONNER R. COHEN Seniorfellow, Lexington Institute Arlington, VA HIGH-FLYING PRESIDENT IN AN OTHERWISE fine article ("The Age of Conflict," Nov...
...11, drawing a distinction between the essential and the trivial is, as Michael S. Greve correctly notes, the first order of business for the nation ("Washington Goes to War," Nov...
...The Ambulatory Surgical Center is located on the North Shore of Long Island and is frequented by some of the most politically correct, liberal citizens one would ever hope to find...
...One is not granted permission to fly a fighter jet unless he has (a) completed basic training, (b) completed flight school, and (c) become a commissioned officer...
...In a complaint filed with the U.S...
...In his eight years as commander in chief, Clinton never learned how to properly salute the Marine guard as he entered and exited Marine One...
...ROBERT H. TYRKA SR...
...Yet the administration's plan to construct an emergency missile defense system—set for operation as early as 2004— is being challenged by special interest groups more interested in environmental correctness than national security...
...Churchill, who had been first lord of the admiralty during WWI, focused all of his concentration on sinking the Bismarck, a task made doubly difficult by that battle group's blowing up the famous battle cruiser HMS Hood, which left fewer than a dozen survivors from a crew of thousands...
...Contemplating what form future terrorist strikes will take is not pleasant, but necessary...
...Next to this is the older waiting area near the door, without a television and with a mix-match of stiff upright chairs and a few back issues of Time...
...His smug, dismissive wave revealed, I believe, his incredulity that anyone with a brain would join the Marines, or earn his living standing around all day in a silly uniform, or, if necessary, give his life to protect our president and our country...
...When they called his name, he calmly stood and walked by each of us and was greeted by a nurse assisting his elderly mother, whom he gently helped into his Lexus...
...Performing test launches "could disrupt unique and pristine ecosystems," and new missile tracking radar would "emit hazardous electromagnetic radiation...
...No one had the heart to move to the other waiting area for fear of seeming politically incorrect...
...All of this would be laughable, but producing a new environmental impact statement (one was already prepared during the Clinton administration) could delay launch of the missile defense system by at least a year...
...GINA M. MAISANO Locust Valley, NY CHURCHILL'S GHOST THERE WAS GLORIOUS irony in the tribute paid by the German destroyer Lutjens to the USS Winston Churchill, named for Britain's magnificent prime minister during WWII (The Scrapbook, Nov...
...JOHN E. BELL Clayton, MO PC...
Vol. 7 • November 2001 • No. 11
