Correspondence
Correspondence THE FEMINIST LEGACY CONGRATULATIONS to Mary Eberstadt for her brilliant expose of the "wolf in wolf's clothing," Naomi Wolf ("Feminism's Children," Nov. 5). The core of the...
...The Argentinian junta attempted to distract its people from an economic and social crisis by invading the Falkland Islands in 1982...
...Despite his (postmodern) effort to "reread" osama and company, the prime ideological inspiration for al Qaeda remains the Koran, and through it, that other catalogue of irrationality and terror, the Old Testament...
...They thought they could do this on the cheap, because they figured no one would really fight for the Falklands...
...Succumbing to the affliction befalling so many "reformist" politicians, in the mid-1990s Enron surveyed its newfound position among the elite and determined that heavy-handed government intrusion in the market is on second thought a healthy thing, so long as Enron dictates when and how...
...Most feminist ideologues rejected motherhood...
...The only thing keeping China out of the Spratleys is the U.S...
...Today, China has a similar opportunity, not with Taiwan, but with the oil-rich Spratley Islands in the South China Sea...
...Historically, when states have been faced with large-scale internal dissension, a diversionary war becomes an option...
...Allying with the likes of the Union of Concerned Scientists and dishonestly scaring people to get its way is Enron's right, if inconsistent with all Stelzer finds admirable in Enron's advocacy on its ascent...
...CHRIS GRIFFITH New York, NY AND A FALLEN GIANT LEGIONS OF CONSERVATIVES, thankful for Enron's prior championship of free and open markets, find apt justice in this erstwhile pioneer's downfall ("The Rise and Fall of Enron," Irwin M. Stelzer, Nov...
...But with the fleet currently occupied elsewhere, what would we do if presented with a Chinese declaration of sovereignty over the Spratleys as a fait accompli...
...Two obscene examples of Enron's reversal of thinking were its aggressive funding of energy suppression through the Kyoto Protocol and its pet project, the "carbon dioxide cap-and-trade" (an "energy tax" according to the Congressional Budget office...
...The core of the feminist movement of the 1970s was its demand to liberate women from motherhood with all its duties and sacrifices, as well as to deny to those who chose motherhood the perks a pro-family society accorded it...
...PHYLLIS SCHLAFLY President, Eagle Forum St...
...With the feminists, plus ga change, plus c'est la meme chose...
...But when the logical outcome is reduced automobility, increased energy costs, and diminished energy security, making a core effort out of shortsighted power plays like Kyoto scuffs the patina of Enron's image as principled market competitor...
...While propaganda of deed-style terrorism has intellectual roots and apologists, Georges Sorel for instance, Newell reveals more about current collegiate culture wars than the war on terror...
...MARK VALLIANATOS Pomona, CA...
...Navy...
...But the United Kingdom did, and the junta fell...
...CHRISTOPHER C. HORNER Competitive Enterprise Institute Washington, DC PREMODERN JIHAD IT IS HARD TO FIND much fault with Waller R. Newell's silly effort to blame the terrorist attacks on leftist academics and postmodernism since so many axes have been ground since September 11 ("Postmodern Jihad," Nov...
...GORDON G. CHANG underestimates the People's Republic of China's ability to make mischief in the short term ("Red Letter Day," Nov...
...Occupation of the Spratleys is for China a low-cost way of harnessing nationalist sentiment and thereby distracting the Chinese people from the oppressive rule of the Communist party...
...Foucault, Derrida, and the spirit of Paris '68 should have been part of the canon taught in Islamic religious schools and terrorist training camps...
...Eberstadt has documented the fact that, even when feminists do have babies, they remain bitter about the demands of motherhood...
...Would America go to war with China over unpopulated— albeit strategically vital—islands to which China possesses a colorable claim...
...Their ideology is consistently antagonistic to happy families...
...Then impressionable young holy warriors would have been able to deconstruct the God-and-guns, burkas-and-beards, talk they were being fed...
...Multiple parties claim these unpopulated islands, none of which, except China, can land a force there and support it for any length of time...
...Louis, MO AN IMPERIALIST-TO-BE...
...However, for a short time, it worked, as nationalist sentiment rallied the Argentinian people around the flag...
Vol. 7 • December 2001 • No. 13
