Correspondence
Correspondence ADVENTURES IN BBQ DAVID BROOKS PLACES too much emphasis on barbecue grills and SUVs in "Patio Man and the Sprawl People" (August 12/August 19) and too little emphasis on what is...
...Having been raised in the United States and having lived in Europe for approximately 25 years, I believe I am able to look at both sides more or less objectively...
...GRAEF CRYSTAL Henderson, NV I FOUND THE INSIGHT in David Brooks's "Patio Man and the Sprawl People" amazing...
...Does that make all children ungrateful...
...In an effort to rouse world sympathy, some have even suggested opening the hospitals to Tv cameras to show the condition of the thousands of wounded...
...Hopefully, the authors of the article are not...
...The Arabs hijacked the Palestinian identifier, rather successfully, and have used it to support the "precedence" argument for their entitlement to the land,when, in fact, they are but one of a series of conquerors of conquerors of the Jewish homeland...
...All parents know that the time will come when, whether they like it or not, they can no longer force their will upon their grown children...
...What is important is not the width of the streets, but rather the low probability that Cops will be taping its next episode on them...
...Like most “protective” schemes, the Marshall Plan was primarily intended to protect U.S...
...interests abroad...
...This translation supports the Arab propaganda goal of persuading the world that the current Arab residents of Israel are descended of the Biblical Canaanite Philistines, and that the land is, therefore, theirs by an ancient birthright...
...economy at the time...
...BYRON MATTHEWS Sandia Park, NM I READ WITH GREAT INTEREST David Brooks's "Patio Man and the Sprawl People" on the likes of Henderson, Nevada, where my wife (a subscriber to The Weekly Standard) and I reside...
...For instance: Mortimer Kaer, Morley Drury, Orville Mohler, Gauis Shaver, Ambrose Schindler, Aramis Dandoy, Irving (Cotton) Warburton, and not to be forgotten, Marion (Duke) Morrison, better known as John Wayne...
...Perhaps that's because it resonated with me personally...
...For our part, we live in a house for which we paid $1.2 million, and—guess what— our house is the cheapest in the whole neighborhood...
...Among other things, he seems to think that a $500,000 house represents the upper part of the market...
...Kids' activities make these housing developments into communities, because the primary way the adults become acquainted is through their children...
...JONATHAN F. KEILER Bowie, MD...
...Plus they are all wet...
...Reading the Times, one has to wonder if the word has any meaning...
...At best, Krauthammer’s story reminds one of a parent who loudly complains when his 57-year-old foster child has become independent and no longer accepts parental dictates as the holy and absolute truth...
...That said, I would like to point out that Brooks draws an overly broad picture of Henderson...
...Apparently, the Times’s writers and editors feel strongly that conservatives are wrong, misguided, or worse, therefore anyone they don’t like can be described as conservative...
...HART Pasadena, CA OUT OF RANGE THE CAPTION ATTACHED to the photo accompanying Gary Schmitt and Tom Donnelly’s “Baghdad is Not Mogadishu” (August 12/August 19), which purports to depict “U.S...
...Correspondence ADVENTURES IN BBQ DAVID BROOKS PLACES too much emphasis on barbecue grills and SUVs in "Patio Man and the Sprawl People" (August 12/August 19) and too little emphasis on what is most interesting about the new suburbs, which is that they represent an attempt to quickly create safe, family-centered communities...
...Nonetheless, his point that you can buy more house for the money than just about anywhere else is right on...
...But others who have been described as conservative or conservatives on the pages of the Times include mullahs in Halabja, Iraq (August 3), Christian clergymen (August 4), an Englishman who wrote that “Israel no longer had a right to exist” (August 4), members of Italian premier Berlusconi’s coalition (August 2), and certain Korean legislators (August 1), to cite only a few recent examples...
...We moved from San Diego from a 2,800 square-foot downtown apartment to a 4,500 square-foot home and paid less money...
...People who have recently come from somewhere else do not have extended family support to draw upon...
...JOHN ELSHOUT Zwijndrecht, The Netherlands WHAT’S IN A NAME...
...The men in the photo are Navy SEALs, who, if you recall, landed in Somalia under the glare of a small army of reporters awaiting them on the beach...
...Up until the mid-1960s, modern references to "Palestinians" were references to the Jews living in ottoman, and then British Mandatory Palestine...
...There was also Desmond Koch (pronounced Cook), an excellent punter whose entry into a game was once announced by the play-by-play announcer as: “. . . and here comes Des Kick to do the cooking...
...It means only that parents should be expected to confront change with maturity and a sense of reality...
...Kids are the reason for this kind of suburb, and they are the glue that holds the whole thing together...
...Does that mean we should prevent children from growing up...
...Readers will be amazed at how frequently the word is used and the variety of people it can describe...
...The area I had lived in for over 35 years went from being a suburb to being an "old" suburb...
...Don't tell anyone where I am because it's wonderful here and much like Littleton, Colorado, was 25 years ago, without the mountains...
...The sympathy and support of the world is not easy to achieve, but without graphic proof, who in today's world would believe Israel...
...However, I’m surprised he did not get into the veritable mother lode of remarkable names offered by the sport of American football...
...Newcomers began moving into the "new" suburbs farther out and paying outrageous sums of money for crackerbox homes with little, tiny yards in and around Douglas County...
...E.H...
...I urge readers of THE WEEKLY STANDARD to see for themselves...
...Go to the website for the New York Times and search for the word “conservative...
...JONATHAN V. LAST’s “The Name Game” (August 12/August 19) was most amusing...
...If their relationship is to have any future at all, it will have to be based on mutual respect instead of dictation...
...Finally came the enormous shopping malls, the big-box stores, and the traffic...
...Actually, Tom Friedman revealed the Times’s mindset in his column of June 26 where he mentioned the “evil conservative clerics” who govern Iran...
...Many American politicians are described as conservative—fair enough...
...I share that feeling...
...Instead, the world should be shown the Palestinians cheering in the streets after the bloodletting, even though the "bleating of the lamb may excite the tiger...
...But the condescending attitude of Krauthammer’s article will bring neither respect nor cooperation...
...FAYE REICHWALD New York, NY IT IS MISGUIDED to translate the Hebrew "P'lishtim" to "Palestinians" rather than to the traditional "Philistines" as in "No Trophies for Terrorists...
...The new suburbs are places where people can get immediate help from their neighbors in a family emergency, even if they just moved in ten days ago...
...DAVE SCHALLERT Anytown, USA NO MORE TROPHIES DAVID GELERNTER'S SUGGESTION in "No Trophies for Terrorists" (August 12/August 19) that Israel ban television photographers from homicide bombing scenes and thus deprive the murderers of the satisfaction of gloating could be self-defeating...
...Sprinkler Cities have tremendous advantages for people who get transferred frequently, making it easier for families with kids to make yet another move...
...Brooks is a brilliant writer, and I found myself hoping that his article would go on and on...
...In fact, the Arabs reached those lands as a conquering army roughly 1,500 years after David lamented Saul and Jonathan, and most of the current Arab residents are descended of Arabs who migrated into the ottoman province of Palestine during the last 100 years of Ottoman rule, attracted by ottoman liberalism and the economic opportunity created by Jewish investment...
...The Palestinians have used television most effectively and have indeed convinced the world that they are the victims, not the perpetrators, of the violence...
...I understand American disappointment that Europeans are often not as U.S.-friendly and like-minded as could be hoped of supposed allies...
...Some of the old University of Southern California teams alone are a treasury of quirky names...
...Having grown up in Littleton, Colorado, and lived there since 1959, I watched as Douglas County transformed from wheat fields and dry grassland to what Brooks describes as "the fastestgrowing county in America...
...Only action based on conviction will do that...
...Rangers in Somalia,” is incorrect...
...The Times also shows its prejudices by the way it uses the word “conservative...
...But helping out someone else does not automatically give one the right to claim unconditional obedience...
...It became too much to fight . . . so I packed up and moved on...
...Fancy grills and expensive patio furniture are fair game for the satirical observer, i suppose, but they are inconsequential results of high disposable income, nothing more...
...PAUL KOTIK Plantation, FL EVIL CONSERVATIVES IN “Bushophobia on West 43rd Street,” Erin Sheley showed one way the New York Times inserts its biases into its news columns (August 12/August 19...
...KATTERHENRY Clearwater, FL WITH FRIENDS LIKE THESE CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER’S CLAIM in “Our Real Friends in Europe” (August 26/September 2) that Western Europe is only rich because of the half century it has spent under the American umbrella is very one-sided...
...The economic aid once offered via the Marshall Plan was not solely an act of charity toward Europe, but was also believed to be in the best interest of the U.S...
...This is a lesson Israel can learn from her enemies...
...Their headgear and the waterproof bags hanging from their necks suggest they are SEALs as well...
...Any leader knows that this takes a continuous effort, but ultimately brings the best and longest lasting results...
...And that’s fine—acting from self-interest often benefits everyone involved...
Vol. 7 • September 2002 • No. 48
