Correspondence
Correspondence SHE-I-A? I APPRECIATE Claire Berlinski's insight into a serious shortcoming of the Central Intelligence Agency, which some believe failed to intercept information concerning the...
...In a recent MSNBC interview, former assistant defense secretary Richard perle made a significant point: September 11 made it clear that we live in a world of anonymous terrorism, in which Cold War-style nuclear deterrence is no longer effective...
...distasteful" actions that once would have been deemed frivolous are now recommended by the virtue of prudence...
...I hope The Weekly Standard will jump on the bandwagon and wrap itself in the flag right down to its bikini briefs...
...3), most of The Weekly Standard's criticism of the New York Times, the Washington Post, and other news organizations is well received...
...Such a scenario is not unimaginable...
...PA VIRTUE Fort Dodge, IA BOMBS ANONYMOUS ELI J. LAKE'S "Preparing for Iraq" (Nov...
...Dec...
...The Scrapbook, Dec...
...Maybe they never read the Zadvydas decision...
...JACK BLADEL Greensboro, NC THE WEEKLY STANDARD...
...Given that we know Saddam has been trying to produce an atomic weapon for years, and is considered to be within three years of having one, and given his known hatred for the United States and his affinity for using terrorists as his agents, our national security demands that his government be eliminated before he has a functional nuclear device...
...Washington's Hispanic population has grown to 7.5 percent, with close to half a million Hispanics counted in the last census...
...elections ("Doing the Latin Swing," Dec...
...Will they, even in public places, be able to access the needed information, or would we just spend millions to train linguists who can provide us with as little information as we had prior to September 11...
...Are we readers really supposed to believe that freedom haters like Barry Lynn share something in common with people who sell the patriotic merchandise in American stores...
...I APPRECIATE Claire Berlinski's insight into a serious shortcoming of the Central Intelligence Agency, which some believe failed to intercept information concerning the most egregious attack on this country in its history ("English Only Spoken Here," Dec...
...But with respect to the Zadvydas decision, I point out that I wrote about this case and its relevance to the campaign against terrorism for MSNBC.com back in October...
...It is significant that Justice Breyer, who wrote the majority opinion, and the four concurring justices (O'Connor, Souter, Stevens, Ginsberg) make up the court's "liberal" wing...
...Sales of NYPD/FDNY gear and flag-themed paraphernalia have stimulated our slumping economy and shown the anti-American crowd—which includes both Osama bin Laden and Barry Lynn—that while we are bowed we are not broken...
...Pedro Celis Republican National Hispanic Assembly Redmond, WA READING ZADVYDAS REGARDING DAVID TELL'S editorial "Is the President a 'Dictator...
...They are the largest minority in the state, in one congressional district representing over 25 percent of the population...
...26) provides a sound chronology of how the United States' Iraq policy is shifting, but it fails to make clear why Saddam Hussein's government must be eliminated as soon as possible...
...Times have truly changed...
...TOM CURRY MSNBC.com Seattle, WA A FLAG-CLAD STAFF I WOULD HAVE expected complaints about "opportunist" business behavior to come from a magazine lacking The Weekly Standard's conservative credentials, so "Separation of Mosque and State...
...He neglected, though, to mention washington in his list of states having Hispanic populations that can swing upcoming elections...
...Curious indeed that Times editorialists and others are ignoring this...
...Mutually assured destruction" only works when the origin of an attack is clear, for example, when our radar detects Soviet missiles arcing over the North pole from Siberia...
...Even they indicated that the indefinite detention of noncitizens who could not be deported might be necessary and constitutional in cases of terrorism and national security...
...ELLIOT I. SUSSER Eastport, NY THE LATINO NORTHWEST MATTHEW DOWD correctly recognizes that Latino voters are rapidly becoming key constituencies in U.S...
...3) really surprised me...
...But I wonder if Berlinski thought about how effective it would be to have female linguists working for the CIA in countries where women are at best second-class citizens...
...perle suggested that a nuclear-armed Saddam would not hesitate to use an atomic weapon against America if he thought it could not be traced, and asked whether the United States would use nuclear retaliation against Iraq if it could not be certain the weapon originated in Iraq...
Vol. 7 • December 2001 • No. 14
