Correspondence
Correspondence COLD CASE STEPHEN F. HAYES'S "Case Closed" raises new questions about Iraq's relationship with al Qaeda—a relationship that only Hayes seems to be covering, with any diligence,...
...concluded by saying that the 14-point Democratic edge in voter registration in Kentucky didn't help the Democrats in the recent gubernatorial election here (Nov...
...In any case, there is ample evidence of a Saddam-al Qaeda connection, however tenuous...
...Like all documents and assertions used to justify war, this latest should be examined thoroughly by all parties before gaining widespread acceptance...
...He should state the incontrovertible facts which led to his decision to invade iraq...
...A better diagnostic system would recognize the disparity of outcome across diagnoses, and find those that allow for accurate treatment planning...
...Everything went from the United States to the Soviet Union...
...A thoroughly American conception, DSM is democratic, egalitarian, and patient (or consumer) oriented, substituting a computer friendly checklist approach for the fuzzy, obscure, and elite formulations of the past...
...BRENDA SPEELZIEK Ontario, Canada WHY HAVE major media outlets ignored Stephen F. Hayes's riveting "Case Closed...
...Pharmaceutical companies embrace this, seeing expanding markets, whereas the insurance industry sees mounting risks...
...VANCE FRICKEY Denver, CO IN HIS EDITORIAL "Against Giddiness," Fred Barnes gave several examples of things that George W. Bush needs to watch out for as he begins his reelection campaign...
...The first American spy agency in World War II was the OSS...
...One hopes that Hayes's reporting will provide the "missing link" between Saddam and al Qaeda, so central to discussions over the validity of the Iraq war...
...Victor is an eel-like writer whose escape route is shrinking...
...DAVID EVANIER Brooklyn, NY UNFIT TO PRINT I APPLAUD your innovation to THE SCRAPBOOK: Publishing the unpublished letters to the editor of the New York Times is an act of courage ("The Scrapbook," Nov...
...and for another, it isn't fiction...
...JIM DORAN Malabar, FL PARTY HEARTY FRED BARNES'S "Realignment, Cont...
...When he needed to challenge his adversaries—Gorbachev, say, or Tip O'Neill— he did so using clear word-pictures and anecdotes that everyone could understand...
...There were no American spies in the USSR in the 1930s and 1940s...
...If the White House really had the goods on Saddam's relationship with al Qaeda, you would think they would trumpet it...
...13), advised legislators who write the "parity" laws for mental health not to cover all mental disorders...
...This law had a 10-year sunset provision when it was first enacted, and is due to expire in September 2004...
...Although it is tempting to wish that parity can be achieved by identifying truly needy classes of patients, the present DSM system has not proved to be a good instrument for such purposes...
...17 review, "Invincible Ignorance," by saying that he is not a half-bad nonfiction writer indulging a lifelong romance with what the Communists used to call "progressive humanity" ("Red Rage," Dec...
...Epidemiological surveys performed using DSM criteria show that up to 50 percent of the American population has one or more psychiatric diagnoses in a year...
...Why not let the clinicians and scientists have a go at improving things before the legislature moves in...
...It isn't laziness that prevents us from switching...
...In his response, Navasky leaves out part of what he wrote in the Nation in its July 18, 2001, issue...
...But better late than never...
...Bush who started the current round of gun control laws, and that it was another Republican, Senator Arlen Specter, who was crucial to the adoption of the Brady Bill...
...The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual approach to psychiatric diagnosis has triumphed since its introduction almost 30 years ago...
...his defense of the innocence of Soviet spies has narrowed down to Alger Hiss...
...Of course, Feith's memo can potentially cut either way...
...15) "Case Closed...
...If it holds up, fantastic—some Americans' nagging consciences will be relieved...
...There weren't any...
...it's just that there are never any contests in the Republican primaries...
...Some were innocent but nevertheless were in technical violation of the law...
...Even if bin Laden had qualms about saddam Hussein, all I have read about his deputy Ayman al Zawahiri suggests he would have no reservations about doing whatever it took to further his war against America and Israel...
...In doing so, the authors exposed only one of the problems with insuring mental health...
...But nobody will argue that this finding does not accurately reflect the state of the art for detecting mental disorders...
...LAURENS D. YOUNG Mequon, WI...
...Kicking things off with Joe Hootman's clever letter on "historically white denominations" was a real treat...
...And, more often than not, Reagan prevailed...
...Before stating "there un-doubtedly were bona fide espionage agents on both sides," he wrote that "There were a lot of exchanges of information among people of good will . . . most of whom were patriots...
...PEGGY SPENCER Cox's Creek, KY DANGEROUS MINDS "MIND GAMES," by Sally Satel and Keith Humphreys (Oct...
...However, unlike The Scrapbook, I can understand why the Times refused to print Hootman's missive...
...But the categories of illness have proliferated to the point that the "seriously" sick can often get lumped in with the fairly well...
...invasion of Iraq, at a cost of billions of dollars and thousands of lives...
...Whenever the Democratic party tried to sell left-wing cant to the American people as "mainstream views," the Gipper took his message of freedom directly to the people...
...Alas, and I'm not accusing poor Victor of this, Belfrage turned out to be a Soviet agent himself...
...Gun owners have long memories...
...Just take this one example, pulled from another Hayes story, "Fair, Balanced, and Bought" (The Daily Standard May 28): "According to one document, authored by an Iraqi operative working in the regime's embassy in Qatar, an Al Jazeera employee Iraqi intelligence referred to as 'Jazeera 2' passed letters from Osama bin Laden to Saddam Hussein...
...But his essential message is always the same: that the real enemy is the United States...
...On Iraq, the president is missing a chance to make an appeal to the people who will decide his reelection in 2004...
...As a matter of policy they did not place a single agent in the Soviet Union...
...Their reasoning: It was banned by the Soviet constitution...
...BRYAN TAPLITS Cincinnati, OH GIDDINESS AS USUAL IN "AGAINST GIDDINESS," Fred Barnes forgot a glaring problem with the Bush administration's current strategy, not only for reelection but also for effective governance: communicating clearly with voters (Nov...
...One thing, however, was missing from Barnes's analysis: the prospect for reenactment of the Brady Bill...
...If it weren't for the Fox News Channel, I would not have known about the leaked Senate Intelligence Committee memo...
...But Reagan had a better idea...
...Bush would most likely sign it if it came to his desk...
...Then he should state what we are doing and hope to do in iraq in plain language...
...Most of these exchanges were innocent and were within the law...
...Nothing the United States did in that era has any resemblance to the Soviet intelligence offensive against the United States up to the end of World War II...
...Bush's recent speeches before the National Endowment for Democracy and the institute for international strategic Studies in London have been praised, and rightly so...
...To make matters worse, the Bush White House ignored, nay, even disputed (via the Pentagon's press release on Saturday, Nov...
...But, then again, these are strange times we are living in...
...American psychiatry, no doubt, remains "concerned...
...What exchanges...
...GREG ICE Santa Rosa, CA RED IN THE FACE I CAN RETURN VICTOR NAVASKY'S halfhearted compliment, included in his response to my Nov...
...As a registered Democrat, I've been part of this edge for 40 years...
...This would hurt the president...
...BARRY KOCH Virginia Beach, VA THANKS TO STEPHEN F. HAYES for reporting on the evidence behind the administration's claim that Saddam and al Qaeda were in cahoots...
...For one thing, the letter wittily undresses the Gray Lady...
...That newspaper, the voice of "progressive" America, endlessly proclaimed the innocence of the Rosenbergs and Alger Hiss and the nonexistence of Soviet espionage...
...Advocating legislation that can pick and choose medical disorders is risky business indeed...
...Rest assured, when November comes around we show our true colors...
...Bush "41" lost his reelection bid in 1992, and Specter faces a primary challenge next year...
...And that is truly fantasy of the most pernicious kind...
...for another, it is bitingly clever...
...From the media up to the highest levels of the administration, all need to know that Americans will accept nothing less than the truth...
...Correspondence COLD CASE STEPHEN F. HAYES'S "Case Closed" raises new questions about Iraq's relationship with al Qaeda—a relationship that only Hayes seems to be covering, with any diligence, anyway, at the moment (Nov...
...American psychiatry and science, not government, ought to take on the task of reordering the mental diagnostic rules...
...If, though, it proves to be a false or "spun-up" document, put out to bolster an incumbent president's popularity and credibility, then it will do little to bolster the case for war...
...He defends the indefensible, but cleverly, more so than the foremost Soviet apologist who preceded him, the unctuous Cedric Belfrage, editor of the late, despicable National Guardian...
...This is information the American people should have been exposed to before the U.S...
...My local paper, the Virginian-Pilot, totally missed The Weekly Standard's scoop...
...Ronald Reagan understood the importance of communication so well that he is still known today as the "Great Communicator...
...If, indeed, an Al Jazeera employee was acting as a courier between Saddam and Osama bin Laden, not only would it explain Al Jazeera's curious war coverage, but it would also bolster the United States and Britain's case to go to war in the first place...
...After World War II, we did make an effort...
...Nothing came from them to us...
...Gun owners are mindful that it was George H.W...
Vol. 9 • December 2003 • No. 13
