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Scrapbook The Surprisingly Good Guys List, II Last week on this page, we launched The Surprisingly Good Guys List™ —as a way to recognize people we assumed would be chattering asses but who have...
...BEATTY: "Have you gotten any flags...
...Here's Simon's peroration: "Those of us who have been pacifists must admit that it has been our blessing to live in a nation in which other citizens have been willing to risk their lives to defend our dissent...
...Scrapbook The Surprisingly Good Guys List, II Last week on this page, we launched The Surprisingly Good Guys List™ —as a way to recognize people we assumed would be chattering asses but who have turned out not to be...
...was economic interests...
...The cartoon has added meaning for the Roosevelt, because, as our correspondent reports, "The flag seen in the now famous picture of New York firefighters . . . was given to our ship...
...After several hundred people gathered on the flight deck below, the flag was run up the yardarm from the signal bridge...
...If being an American Leftist today means defending that, then I can't be a Leftist...
...The war against terrorism does not shove American power into places where it has no place...
...Pacifists, like most Americans, would like to change their country in a thousand ways...
...Wilentz's bracing conclusion: "Our opponents must be crushed, if not eliminated...
...Only American (and British) power can stop more killing in the world's skyscrapers, pizza parlors, embassies, bus stations, ships, and airplanes...
...I am also not into wrapping a stars and stripes bandana around my head Willie Nelson style and honking in unison with 10,000 Durangos while the Lynard Skynard/W...
...My mother and father were antiVietnam War activists, and I grew up with a deeply ambivalent vision of the U.S.'s role in the world...
...It is better to sacrifice our ideals than to expect others to die for them...
...16 broadcast on WBUR Boston (NPR): POLLITT: "THE WEEKLY STANDARD had a sort of 'Send a Flag to Miss Pollitt' [campaign...
...Okay, no full pardon till he kicks Dan Schorr off the show...
...It calls on America's military strength in a global crisis in which peaceful solutions are not apparent...
...Here's an exchange between Pollitt and host Jack Beatty from an Oct...
...I feel the Left grasping at the idea of anti-Americanism which is its only core now that Marxism has been discredited by history...
...Any decent and concerned reader of this magazine could have been on one of those planes, or in one of those buildings—yes, even in the Pentagon...
...He was already a member in good standing of our secret Good Guys List, a status he achieved during the impeachment struggle of 1998-99...
...Flags for Miss Pollitt Update Three weeks ago we invited readers to donate flags to Nation columnist Katha Pollitt's 13-year-old daughter, who had been told by her anti-flag mother to buy the Stars and Stripes "with her own money and fly it out her bedroom window, because that's hers, but the living room is off-limits...
...And the blasts of Sept...
...Indiscriminate murder is not a judgment, even obliquely, on the victims or their way of life, or ours...
...The response to our invitation for nominations from readers was overwhelming...
...11 should remind American pacifists that they live in that one place on the planet where change—in fact, peaceful change—seems most possible...
...To say that poverty explains terror," Wilentz continued, "is to slander those caught in poverty who choose to lead worthy lives...
...No Blood for Oil' I chanted in DC in 91, and I believed it...
...Still, you're right...
...There were multiple nominations for Scott Simon, the "archetypical NPR guy," as one reader put it, whose October 11 piece for the Wall Street Journal "should earn him a permanent reprieve, and perhaps a full pardon...
...Well, call us pedantic, but we can't say Hitch has surprised us...
...We were skeptical, but the Daily Princetonian report is persuasive...
...It has been signed by Gov...
...Now, on to new business...
...To analyze the causation of the terrorists' actions is to accept their violence as a legitimate political expression...
...Wilentz mocked root-causes thinking, pointing out that, based on the biographies of the September 11 killers, this would mean terrorism is caused by "money, education and privilege...
...Through most of my lifetime, I have adopted a profoundly isolationist philosophy on geopolitical matters, and called it pacifism...
...A reader at Princeton writes to nominate Bill Clinton's favorite historian, Sean Wilentz, who "spoke out strongly in support of military action against terrorism at a rally organized by the Princeton Committee Against Terrorism—the student group opposing campus anti-Americanism at Princeton...
...But this anti-Americanism is not an appropriate reaction to the murder of 6,400 Americans on Sept...
...You deliver...
...remix plays from my radio...
...We expected excellence from him, and he has delivered...
...I am sad, and I am lost...
...As before, send your candidates for future editions of the list, along with the work that qualifies them, to Scrap-book@weeklystandard.com...
...was the new evil empire, and could not support military action under any circumstances, because I believed that the only political situation which truly motivated the U.S...
...Pataki and Mayor Giuliani and stamped by Fire Station #1 in Manhattan...
...I find Michael Moore, Ralph Nader, Noam Chomsky, Katha Pollitt, Susan Sontag et al's attempts to blame the U.S...
...The Left does not speak for me on this issue...
...I believed that the U.S...
...Every single one of you demanded to know how CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS got left off the list...
...Terrorists] are not the oppressed, but they are parasites on oppression...
...We report...
...If anyone knows the provenance, let us know and we'll give full credit next week...
...The drawing, apparently by a soldier, is making the rounds via e-mail...
...I do not...
...Finally, a reader forwards a long e-mail from Berkeley feminist Tristin Laughter, publicist for the punk label Lookout Records, noting, "it seems things are even changing in Berkeley": "I'll Take It From Here" THE SCRAPBOOK'S friends on the USS Theodore Roosevelt e-mailed us the drawing reproduced here, which we found oddly affecting...
...Dear Colleagues and Friends," writes Laughter...
...Hitchens has been heroically mucking out the Augean Stables of leftdom and deserves recognition...
...I have never felt more clearly my alienation from political movements in this country than I do now...
...POLLITT: "I got a few...
...I do not understand this cruel and chaotic side of the human experience...
...Now I know, in a visceral, human way, that the United States has enemies in the global arena, enemies capable of a brutality and a barbarism which marks their depravity...
...for this mass murder ideologically weak and morally absurd...
...We're pleased to report that some of you, at any rate, answered the call...
...Our favorite paragraph was this bracing sermon to his readers at the Nation two weeks ago: "The bombers of Manhattan represent fascism with an Islamic face, and there's no point in any euphemism about it...
...I have been thinking a lot about the political situation that we find ourselves in, and more precisely, that I find myself in, following the events of Sept...
Vol. 7 • October 2001 • No. 7
