Correspondence
Correspondence KERRY THE HAWK IN HIS EDITORIAL "The Antiwar Candidate" (Aug. 16/Aug. 23), William Kristol argues that a John Kerry administration would not implement a forward-looking military...
...2) how many people in their household are working...
...23), Irwin M. Stelzer demonstrates why the economy is perceived as doing poorly when it is actually doing well...
...First, the commission did not adequately address how u.S...
...Fundamental American values are threatened in many parts of Africa, Asia, and Latin America on a daily basis...
...DANIEL JOHN SOBIESKI Chicago, IL EMBEDDED BUREAUCRATS REUEL MARC GERECHT made two particularly salient points in his critique of the 9/11 Commission report ("Not Worth a Blue Ribbon," Aug...
...Kristol cites Kerry's Democratic convention speech as evidence...
...One is the Establishment Survey that, as the name suggests, is computed by asking employers on the BLS list how many people they have working for them and how many they have hired or laid off...
...AL WINSTON Naples, FL WHAT THE HAL...
...The fact is that the jobless rate fell to 5.5 percent in July, the same rate that Bill Clinton hailed as a sign of prosperity in 1996...
...Tis expressly against the law of arms," cited in last week's editorial ("Kerry's Band of Brothers," August 30), refers to the French "war crime" at Agincourt, not the English...
...The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) produces two different job counts each month...
...23), William Kristol argues that a John Kerry administration would not implement a forward-looking military strategy...
...VICTORINO MATUS MAY BE CORRECT in fearing the rapid advance of technology, but he misstates both the facts and the message of 2001: A Space Odyssey (Casual, Aug...
...The problem with this survey of non-farm payrolls is that it doesn't account for new businesses, independent contractors, or the self-employed (except perhaps on a lagging basis...
...intelligence services could better develop local assets capable of penetrating terrorist cells...
...If the economy is doing poorly and job growth is sluggish, how is it that we have had nearly three straight years of economic expansion at an average 3 percent growth rate...
...HAL goes psychotic, while his duplicate on Earth does not, because HAL has been instructed to lie to Dave and his colleague about the true purpose of the mission...
...FRANK J. RUSSO Richmond, VA SECONDHAND NEWS "Bad Headlines for Bush . .." (Aug...
...CARY WILLIAM CLEW Hacienda Heights, CA THE FOG OF WAR AS OUR SHAKESPEARE-LITERATE readers have pointed out, Fluellen's "Kill the poys and the luggage...
...Does this include humanitarian crises...
...Furthermore, a message of the movie is that technology—whether a pig's thighbone or HAL—isn't inherently good or bad, but can be corrupted by the uses to which humans put it...
...The other survey, the Household Survey, actually calls people up and asks them (1) if they have a job...
...But is it really bad news, or simply biased reporting and misleading analysis...
...and (3) how many have been hired or fired...
...Kerry said he would use military force "only" when the American people or "fundamental American values" faced a threat that was real and imminent...
...Yet, as with all things Kerry, his discussion of foreign policy at the convention was fraught with ambiguities...
...The American people deserved more from the 9/11 Commission than an unimaginative call to expand our group-think-prone intelligence bureaucracy...
...I do not know what a real and imminent threat to "fundamental American values" looks like...
...Contrary to Matus's assertion, HAL does not kill all the astronauts...
...So if Kerry intended his statement to be some kind of limiting principle governing the use of force, he is far more of a hawk than your editorial suggests...
...The Establishment Survey shows that just 401,000 net new jobs have been created since the recession ended in November 2001, an average of roughly 12,500 per month...
...Second, its recommended solution to our intelligence gathering woes was further centralization of the process...
...The Kerry campaign trumpeted this as bad news, as did the media...
...The "Dave" character, in fact, outsmarts HAL by braving the vacuum of space without a helmet to reenter the spacecraft and disable HAL...
...In the short term, it almost completely ignores the entrepreneurial sector of the economy—the sector that creates the most jobs...
...But the Household Survey counts more than 3.2 million new net jobs created over that same period, including an astounding 629,000 in July...
...He accepts and repeats— without questioning or qualifying—the July report that the "economy created surprisingly few jobs—a mere 32,000...
Vol. 9 • September 2004 • No. 48
