Correspondence
Correspondence DEFINING THE ENEMY I AGREE WITH MUCH of what Charles Krauthammer says about the nature of the combatants in the current war ("The Enemy Is Not Islam. It Is Nihilism." Oct. 22). The...
...My argument, set down in the opening lines, is impossible for a fair-minded reader to mistake: "Sept...
...EVA S. BELAVSKY Chicago, IL FLAG-WAVING AMERICAN NOEMIE EMERY CALLS my New York Times Magazine piece "Recapturing the Flag" an "attack on Old Glory as being somehow oppressive and sinister" ("Look Who's Waving the Flag Now," Oct...
...This last proclivity robs them of any pretense but nihilism...
...In the comfort of our cocoon, we were for too long oblivious to the work of evil taking place right in front of us...
...When I watched in horror as the two towers collapsed, I immediately thought of the Bamian Buddhas...
...GEORGE PACKER Brooklyn, NY IN BUSH WE TRUST...
...I am grateful to Krauthammer for his clear analysis, and to The Weekly Standard for publishing this warning...
...WHEN WILL MEMBERS of the media end their praise of President George W. Bush for performing on par with, or (surprisingly) better than, their diminished expectations...
...ERIK GILLESPIE Brooklyn, NY...
...If so, these leftists might ponder bin Laden's decision to risk the lives of the Afghan masses rather than "martyr" himself and come out with his hands up...
...The analogy between al Qaeda and the German Nazi party is particularly apt...
...Are we still indulging in escapism, choosing to ignore the violent, anti-American mood of the Arab street...
...While this is an interesting subject, and particularly well-suited to the confines of the classroom, do they really believe that the lessening of resentment against the United States in Islamic countries will have the least effect on any of al Qaeda's plans...
...Analogy becomes congruence with his call for the removal of the Jews from his holy soil...
...Among the things destroyed with the twin towers was the notion, held by certain Americans ever since vietnam, that to be stirred by national identity, carry a flag and feel grateful toward someone in uniform ought to be a source of embarrassment...
...Katha Pollitt, Noam Chomsky, and the other "What's Left" intellectuals appear to have placed the psychological analyses of those who would like to kill them as a top priority in the war against terrorism...
...The piece is exactly the opposite, as I'm sure Emery is aware...
...Bin Laden begins with his call for the removal of American influence from his own pan-Arab version of "one land, one blood, one folk...
...The Bamian Buddhas were the miners' canaries...
...Both Hitler and bin Laden advocate cultural "returns" to their respective mythic volkisch Gemeinschafts, places immune to the "outside contaminations" of cultural, racial, and religious "others...
...22), we can only be further dismayed and quickly counter Barnes: George W. Bush is NOT an effective communicator...
...While THE WEEKLY STANDARD diligently monitors the stupidity of left-wing writing about the terrorist attacks, it ought to keep its other eye on the dishonesty practiced in its own pages...
...For example, Barnes notes "repetition" as one of Bush's skills, but I watched the same address and question-and-answer session...
...We failed to interpret their demise as a harbinger of disaster for all of us...
...In response to Fred Barnes's "A Different Kind of War President" (Oct...
...domestic or foreign policy and events embarrasses both the presidency and the United States as a whole...
...Both use religions—in the case of the Nazis, Christianity—to shield themselves from criticism within the sphere of their presumed constituencies, while violating the foundations of those same religions...
...When American flags and effigies of the American president are burned by fervent mobs, do we still refuse to believe that the terrorists' true intent is to burn our cities...
...Emery quotes passages in which I take a critical look at the mindset of liberalism from my youth and attributes them to the argument of the piece—a cheap and deceptive way to score a point...
...DAVID MARC Syracuse, NY I BELIEVE CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER is the first in the American press to finally make a connection between the Bami-an Buddhas and the twin towers...
...George W. Bush's inability to hold or convey a more complex understanding of U.S...
...Bush's repetition conveyed not a message, but a lack of rhetorical skills and limited intelligence...
...Which brings me to Paul Hollander's "Anti-Americanism Revisited" (Oct 22...
...11 made it safe for liberals to be patriots...
...Despite the fact that they are the sworn enemies of modernity, Nazism and radical Islamism pin their hopes for success on the use of avant-garde technology for wanton mass destruction...
Vol. 7 • November 2001 • No. 8
