Correspondence
Correspondence BERETS AND BUTTS IN HIS REVIEW OF PAUL FUSSELL'S Uniforms, Martin Levin writes of "the recent attempt by the Joint Chiefs of Staff to cheapen the Army Rangers' exclusive black...
...WALTER W PLUMMER Colonel, U.S...
...Correspondence BERETS AND BUTTS IN HIS REVIEW OF PAUL FUSSELL'S Uniforms, Martin Levin writes of "the recent attempt by the Joint Chiefs of Staff to cheapen the Army Rangers' exclusive black berets by issuing them to the entire Army" ("Dressing for War," Jan...
...Kirstein opens by discussing the "indiscriminate use of high-altitude bombing and the incapacity of our so-called enemies to seriously challenge our airpower...
...No, Babbin is upset because Kirstein is not telling the truth...
...His hostility to America is, by any objective standard, treasonous...
...Thanks for a wonderful laugh...
...Et omnes gaudent...
...Kirstein suspects that Babbin is upset that he so sanctimoniously attacks the "sacrosanct military establishment that has brought forth so much devastation and misery to so many peoples throughout the world...
...Never mind that "our airpow-er" is never used indiscriminately and that the inability of our enemies to challenge it stems from having their own anti-air power destroyed first...
...Only 416 weeks to go . . . JOHN KRANZ Lafayette, CO THE WEEKLY STANDARD...
...If memory serves, the Airborne kept its maroon berets, the Special Forces kept their green berets, and the Rangers got the tan berets (like the SAS, their counterparts in the U.K...
...He is most often quoted as having said: "Only a pimp in a New Orleans whorehouse or a tin-horn gambler would carry a pearl-handled pistol...
...Our national security depends on defeating Islamism and the barbarian ideology that spawns terrorism...
...MICHAEL DALY Wakefield, MA CLINTONUS: CLASS CLOWN FINALLY, AFTER TWENTY-ODD YEARS, those four years of high school Latin have paid off...
...Obviously our friends at the Financial Times agree...
...However, if Latin textbooks were written like The Scrapbook item "Clintonus Maximus...
...The devastation and misery he so deplores was not brought forth by the United States, but by our enemies—Soviet-sanctioned North Korea, Soviet-sanctioned North Vietnam, Islamist Iran, Saddam Hussein's Iraq, Soviet-sanctioned Nicaragua and its proxy armies in El Salvador...
...20), I stumbled upon www.pepysdiary.com...
...There never has been...
...Patton's revolvers had ivory grips...
...Patriotism is rightly equated with love of country, love of civilization, and respect for the truth...
...To treat "other peoples and cultures who dare diverge from our own with respect and patience" is what brought on the September 2001 slaughters and the endless aggressions against civilization...
...Jan...
...20) instead of in such riveting passages as "Britannia insula est," enrollment would surely skyrocket...
...Well, not exactly...
...Army (Retired) Frederick, MD Kirstein, Again PETER N. KIRSTEIN PROVES the validity of Jed Babbin's "When Professors Attack" piece with his expansive and shrill letter to The Weekly Standard's January 20 issue...
...It's true that General Shinseki, as the Army Chief of Staff, is a member of the Joint Chiefs...
...He claims to be a realist, but he is not...
...It was worth the wait...
...That is in keeping with his total lack of respect for truth and honesty...
...Levin also mentions General George Patton's "famous pearl-handled revolver...
...There is no such thing as "American imperialism...
...however, the decision was an Army decision...
...Kirstein finishes his screed with the accusation: "I suspect the secretary equates patriotism with blind obedience...
...Kirstein displays no respect for truth anywhere in his diatribe...
...The decision to issue black berets to the "entire Army" was an internal Army decision made by the Army Chief of Staff, General Eric Shinseki...
...Levin continues, "The Rangers protested strongly—and won...
...Not that anyone takes Latin for especially practical reasons, beyond the verbal SAT, and certainly never for entertainment purposes...
...Kirstein says he wears his suspension as a red badge of courage...
...The rest of the Army got tan berets instead...
...The site, started on January 1 with his first entry, is posting one day's diary entry every day, in "blog" format...
...That whirring noise you hear is General Patton spinning in his grave...
...Certain other peoples and cultures have simply proven themselves barbaric, and are not to be treated with kid gloves...
...AMY GILLEN HAGEMEYER Oak Ridge, TN PEPYS GOES ONLINE JUST TWO DAYS AFTER I READ Hugh Ormsby-Lennon's 'And So to Bed," the enjoyable review of the latest biography of Samuel Pepys (Jan...
...The military establishment, far from being sacrosanct, has been ruthlessly discriminated against for well over three decades...
...while "the rest of the Army" got black berets...
Vol. 8 • February 2003 • No. 20
