Correspondence
Correspondence BOOT ON THE GROUND MAX BOOT ("Reconstructing Iraq," Sept. 15) incorrectly implies that the reason why the Army has continued to sustain casualties in Iraq while the Marines have not...
...Boot may well be right, but the facts he presents don't make his case...
...Throughout both the war in Afghanistan and the war in Iraq, military observers have pointed out the innumerable advancements in American weapons technology and tactics since the first Gulf War of 1991...
...LIBBY STERNBERG Vermonters for Better Education Rutland, VT RUMMY AND COKE IN HIS "Secretary of Stubbornness" (Sept...
...The only school-choice policy in Vermont he supported was a weak program that applies only to Vermont's public high schools, only to a handful of students per high school, and only to schools that form collaborative agreements with each other, with no money following the child...
...15), Tom Donnelly states that President Bush faces a "dilemma created by his decision to promulgate the Bush Doctrine with Bill Clinton's military...
...During the Clinton years...
...I hope future pieces on this topic will offer a fair and complete comparison of the tactical situation in different parts of Iraq...
...media reports with the same skepticism with which they once read Pravda...
...However, Moore errs when he writes that Dean "narrowly escaped a career-ending loss by only a few hundred votes" in November 1998...
...journalists rediscover their independence, the sooner the world will truly be a better place...
...The sooner U.S...
...While it was a hard-fought race that year, Dean pulled 121,425 votes to Republican Ruth Dwyer's 89,726, hardly a "few hundred" vote difference...
...TOM SEMMENS Auckland, New Zealand NOT-SO-GOOD DOCTOR STEPHEN MOORE ("The Appeal of Howard Dean," Sept...
...15) incorrectly implies that the reason why the Army has continued to sustain casualties in Iraq while the Marines have not is bad tactics and, perhaps, bad leadership...
...In fact, Dean has been a stalwart opponent of vouchers, even of charter schools...
...And it's automatically repealed in 2007...
...He might have been more convincing if he had spent some time in the "Sunni Triangle" with the 4th Infantry Division and the other Army units there...
...When did all of these advancements enter our military...
...In fact, it seems pretty clear that the Army's heavy divisions got stuck with the tougher assignment...
...STEPHEN ABSECK New York, NY...
...troops by guarding a suspected Iraqi insurgent...
...As a Vermont school-choice activist for the past six years, I do not know of any voucher program Dean has supported...
...But few conservatives have been willing to admit that just eight months after taking office, President Bush sent that maligned Clinton military into action in response to the attacks of September 11 and, to no serious observer's surprise, our armed forces demonstrated that they were, in fact, well trained, well equipped, and large enough to quickly defeat the Taliban and project ample force around the world...
...It seems well established by now that the level of violence in different parts of Iraq reflects regional and demographic differences...
...He mentioned it in television campaign ads touting his education policies—ads taped at a private school near Burlington, rubbing salt in the wounds of those who would like private schools included in any choice program...
...Dean is a shrewd and shameless politician...
...This did not keep the governor from cynically campaigning on his school-choice record during the 2000 gubernatorial race, however...
...15) is right to characterize former Vermont governor Howard Dean as a politically savvy candidate who should not be underestimated...
...Such conservative accusations of military neglect by the Clinton administration are quite common...
...Moreover, Moore couldn't be more wrong when he claims that Dean "launched one of the nation's most progressive voucher programs for high school students...
...Reuel Marc Gerecht's "Be Careful What You Wish For," in the same issue as Boot's piece, is just one of many essays that support that conclusion...
...No wonder people now read U.S...
...He briefly spoke out in favor of this kind of arrangement during one legislative session, and opposed choice programs at other times...
...But I know Vermont school choice supporters, and Howard Dean is not among them...
...MATTHEW C. AMES Fairfax, VA FROM A NEW ZEALANDER'S perspective, how can I believe anything written by Max Boot, a journalist who armed himself with a 9mm pistol and actively helped U.S...
Vol. 9 • September 2003 • No. 3
