Correspondence
Correspondence THE FLYING DUTCHMAN FOR YOUR INFORMATION, I would like to clear up some misunderstandings concerning Gretta Duisenberg's recent trip to the Middle East ("Mrs. Euro's Mideast...
...Previous issues of The Weekly Standard have highlighted France's growing anti-Semitism as they pander to the post-colonial flotsam that grows in numbers and strength on French soil...
...First and foremost: The fact that Mrs...
...ROBERT W PATTERSON Domestic Policy Department Consultant The Heritage Foundation Washington, DC...
...Duisenberg's comment and actions during her trip are very biased and therefore lack any credibility...
...And the media needs precious little reason to criticize the man already...
...I hope this reassures your concerns about this incident and the response to it on behalf of the Dutch government...
...The French fear an uprising of this large, mostly male, restless Arab minority in the streets of France, so they are doing all they can to appease them at home at the expense of the world's war on terrorism...
...HARRY A.M...
...It was an Iraqi French-built Mirage fighter that fired a French-made Exocet missile that hit the USS Stark in the Persian Gulf on May 17, 1987, killing 37 American sailors...
...He doesn't take advantage of any "medium" because he wasn't created by political bosses like Kennedy or Roosevelt...
...And he connects much like Reagan in that he speaks over the politicians and directly to citizens...
...The racist French treat Arabs as second-class citizens and they live in suburban ghettos, exporting violence, crime, and militant Islamic fundamentalism...
...France built the Osirak nuclear reactor outside Baghdad, which Israel helped the world by destroying in 1981, and which would otherwise have given Saddam a nuclear weapon by the time he invaded Kuwait, making the world a very different place...
...The leaders of France are being kept on a short leash by domestic jihadists...
...Bush has something far less fictional...
...Gelernter's suggestion of fake strategy session photos and ghost-written books on courage makes him the perfect adviser for Hillary Clinton in 2008...
...Security council and beyond...
...French colonialism has borne its fruit, and a poisonous one it is, that now has consequences for every country at France's mercy on the U.N...
...Think of the American South in 1960...
...Duisenberg used a diplomatic passport in no way implies that she was representing the opinion of the Dutch government or in any way representing the Dutch government...
...Euro's Mideast Adventure," Feb...
...Currently, all individual retirement accounts (Roth and traditional) are strictly individual...
...These companies fear that a post-Saddam Iraq government might not look kindly on those who supported its former oppressors...
...And Saddam's "Supergun," the long-range, nuclear-capable cannon that was almost operational during the Gulf War, was produced by companies from seven different European countries...
...Blankenhorn, however, should have called for the application of his marriage principle to the treatment of the vast array of tax-neutral savings-account instruments, which the administration rightly seeks to simplify...
...Duisenberg travels abroad for any other purpose, she should use her own civilian passport...
...To suggest Bush has not found his way to address the public is to ignore his connection with the public...
...The French communications company Alcatel and automakers Renault and Peugeot have also done good business in Iraq in recent years...
...A married couple cannot open a joint IRA as they can with traditional checking, savings, and brokerage accounts...
...It is their own fear of the enemy within, the fruit of French racism and past imperialism...
...While not a full recovery of the "income splitting" that reigned supreme during the 1950s baby boom, this shift—coupled with the move up of the child tax credit to $1,000 this calendar year—represents overdue recognition of the critical economic contribution of marriage and the two-parent family...
...If and whenever Mrs...
...The Dutch minister of foreign affairs has unequivocally stated that since this was clearly a private visit, she broke the rules by traveling on a diplomatic passport...
...German firms have specialized in providing poison gas and missile technology to Iraq...
...Rest assured that the Israeli government is quite aware of this...
...The prime minister added that, should she break the rules again, her diplomatic passport will be revoked...
...A simplification of such savings plans, therefore, ought also to permit joint ownership (with at least double the contribution levels), allowing such instruments to reflect the reality of the marriage partnership...
...Duisenberg can only use her diplomatic passport when accompanying her husband on his official business travel...
...He did not have to fluff up his hair or rush out phony pictures of himself "thinking" about these things...
...The pusillanimous response of Europe and the Russians to the prospect of renewed military action against Iraq is actually easy to understand...
...Those who favor appeasement at all costs may be acting less on principle and more on economic self-interest...
...W. Seth Carus, a senior research professor at the National Defense University, noted a decade ago, "Everything that showed up in Iraq— chemical, biological, nuclear—had a German element in it...
...DAVID HULL Oklahoma City, OK GOIN' TO THE CHAPEL DAVID BLANKENHORN rightly praises President Bush for his bold plan to move the country away from the libertarian/feminist preference for taxing Americans as unrelated individuals and toward the social conservative principle of elevating marriage as a tax unit (or institution) that is greater than the sum of its parts ("For Richer, For Poorer," Feb...
...Secondly, Mrs...
...And the French oil company TotalFinaElf has exclusive rights to develop the Bin Umar and Manjoon oil fields...
...And by 1989 an estimated half of French arms production went to Iraq...
...JFK had Hollywood charm...
...But what is the root cause for this self-defeating and duplicitous stance...
...Nothing is more pretentious than acting like you are above the spin cycle except, perhaps, thinking you know best how to churn it...
...Nearly 20 percent of France's present population are Arab Muslims from former colonies such as Algeria, Morocco, Lebanon, and Egypt...
...The French hold $4 billion in Iraqi debts...
...The press would have a field day mocking such manufactured images...
...How ironic that the oppressive imperialism and racism of 19th and 20th-century France still dictates a flawed and dangerous foreign policy in the 21st century...
...DE WIT Royal Netherlands Embassy Washington, DC FROGS IN ACTION THE FRENCH GOVERNMENT has lost all credibility whatsoever on questions related to the containment of Islamic inspired terrorism...
...Using all of his God-given rather than public-relations-created abilities, Bush swung the public behind his Iraq policy and stood strong behind his economic plans...
...Robert Kagan and William Kristol provide merely the latest example of France's shameless cynicism in their rejection of the enforcement mandate of a U.N...
...WILLIAM L. ASBELL Dover, NH THE FRENCH FOREIGN MINISTER Dominique de Villepin's declaration that France will veto any U.N...
...When he describes why tax-cutting now rather than later makes sense, he colloquially calls it a "no-brainer...
...When he sees evil attack our shores, he stands up and proclaims that we are going to "kick their ass...
...The Russian oil giant Lukoil has contracts with Iraq's current government, and Russia's government has $8 billion in Iraqi debt it wants repaid...
...Security council resolution explicitly authorizing war with Iraq is rooted not in principle but in the fact that France holds billions in IOUs from Iraq and is worried that a post-Saddam Iraq will not forgive the French for aiding and abetting Saddam's crimes...
...Rather he simply talked to us as Americans...
...Joint ownership, of course, would be trickier with employer-sponsored plans, but in all the other tax-neutral savings instruments it would allow a married couple—who today might have four individual retirement accounts between husband and wife—to consolidate them into one simple joint account...
...Furthermore, the minister of foreign affairs has stated in public that Mrs...
...DANIEL JOHN SOBIESKI Chicago, IL JFK IS NOGWB PERHAPS AFTER the president's incredibly successful State of the Union address, it is unfair to point out how wrong David Gelernter's advice to Bush was ("GWB & JFK," Feb...
...resolution that they voted for themselves ("Merci, M. de Villepin," Feb...
Vol. 8 • February 2003 • No. 22
