Correspondence
Correspondence SHIA MADNESS I COMMEND STEPHEN SCHWARTZ for his truly insightful article on the Shia Muslims of today ("Fear Not the Shias," March 24). Increasingly, it is becoming critical to...
...American troops in Iraq will cut off the overland route of weapons from Iran to Syria...
...Buchanan determined that majority rule can be safely allowed to operate in ordinary politics, but requires a constitutional framework for stability...
...In his writings, economist James M. Buchanan grapples with the injustice and inefficiency arising from unfettered majority rule in parliamentary assemblies...
...STEVE DRIES Green Bay, WI ROYAL PAIN I HOPE NO ONE has a more depressing commentary on the deplorable lack of interest in the great historian christopher Dawson than this: During four years in the graduate history program at Notre Dame (1978-82), I did not hear his name mentioned a single time...
...ROSS Nashville, TN...
...Douglas A. Robertson The Woodlands, TX AFTER IRAQ FALLS JEFFREY BELL'S "Bush's Grand Strategy" (March 24) takes a look at the big picture, but one point about the fallout from the war in Iraq is worth expanding...
...When they do, they will find a warm and sincere people willing to reach out to meet and greet their liberators, and strive towards a Middle East based on justice, democracy, pluralism, and human rights...
...But this immediately raises a question that I believe most Weekly Standard readers should also ponder: Why should tort reform be a federal issue...
...Increasingly, it is becoming critical to recognize and understand the differences between this traditionally oppressed minority and the remainder of the Islamic world...
...So is physician regulation...
...I have been taught love of all peoples: Jews, Christians, etc...
...As a Shia Muslim, I also recognize that Shias have made some mistakes in the recent past, which have contributed to their image problem in the West...
...There will not be another kabuki dance like in Turkey to position American troops for an attack...
...In Iraq, there is no history of constitutional rule, and stability will therefore be harder to attain...
...The president refers to "representative government" rather than democracy—interpreted as "majority" rule, which tends to rotate its rules and is therefore unstable...
...Fewer weapons mean fewer attacks on Israel...
...Fewer still believe that even legitimately victimized plaintiffs should, in essence, win the lottery as a result of their doctor's negligence...
...REAZ H.JAFRI Manhasset, NY DEMOCRACY DOUBTS ALTHOUGH REUEL MARC GERECHT makes reasonably strong arguments for establishing a democracy in "Why We Need a Democratic Iraq" (March 24), there are many compelling reasons why it will not, should not, or cannot be realized...
...I will be thankful the day Saddam Hussein dies...
...Therefore, it is no surprise that some of the greatest despots and world terrorists today happen not to be Shia Muslim (take Saddam, bin Laden, Qaddafi, and the entire Saudi clan for starters...
...C.H...
...While it's always easier to attack a problem once, instead of 50 times, conservatives should remain wary of congress usurping what are, in essence, powers reserved to the states...
...The latter has oppressed, terrorized, and killed the Shia for the past 1,400 years wherever they were...
...I only hope that we do not lose this opportunity to once and for all destroy the terrorist, fundamentalist Wahhabi movement...
...JERRY D. STAATZ Grand Prairie, TX FEDERALISM LIVES FEW TRUE CONSERVATIVES doubt the wisdom of reining in skyrocketing medical malpractice costs...
...However, at heart, Shias are a peace-loving people who have a profound sense of human justice and dignity...
...If it becomes necessary to use force against Iran, they will be between American allies Afghanistan, Iraq, and pakistan...
...We Shias have always maintained that Wahhabism is a threat to all peoples...
...JAFFER SYED Toronto, Canada AS A SECULAR, AMERICAN LAWYER who is also Shia, I was very pleased to read Stephen Schwartz's article...
...To this end, William Tucker cites California's 1976 law approvingly, which caps non-economic damages at $250,000, in "Legal Malpractice" (March 24...
...May God grant that Robert Royal's article "Dawson's History" (March 17) be the first step in putting an end to this shameful neglect...
...So is insurance...
...This will short-circuit Hamas...
...Fewer attacks mean peace between Israel and the Arabs becomes more likely...
...We recognized the Taliban as an enemy of the world long before 9/11...
...An Iraq that is friendly to the United States also allows us to keep a close eye on the nascent Iranian nuclear program...
...Americans would do well to find out more about this long-misunderstood minority...
...Who wants to extend the instability in Iraq for a moment longer...
...Tort law is almost uniquely a creature of the common law, which is to say, state law...
...How can the murderers of the prophet's family be Muslims, never mind leaders of Islam...
Vol. 8 • April 2003 • No. 29
