Correspondence
Correspondence VITUPERATIVE VIRGILIANS WHAT A DELIGHT to find Virgil on the cover of The Weekly Standard ("Virgil Lives," Sept. 29). Yet how disappointing, once one reads Robert Royal's review of...
...But the Epicureans were dismissed by Christians as deficient in that their pagan morality centered on duty to one's fellows and to reason...
...protocols...
...It also would endanger any American attempt to appeal to the hearts and minds of those opposed to the current Iranian regime and spark a government crackdown against them the likes we have not yet seen...
...And on top of that, his advice to increase nuclear power use by invoking the iron glove of governmental fiat goes against the grain of many conservatives...
...Yet how disappointing, once one reads Robert Royal's review of Eve Adler's Vergil's Empire, to find the old calumny of Epicurean "atheism...
...Nuclear power is dead, principally because the dangers of operating reactors and the problems of deadly spent fuel and decommissioned plants have not been solved...
...MICHAEL PARANZINO Bethesda, MD HENRY SOKOLSKI RESPONDS: Michael Paranzino correctly identifies a problem with the U.N.: it might not act...
...Of course, if 300 Spartans had trusted in pacifistic nonviolence, we might all be speaking Persian in a theocratic monarchy...
...would only make any long-term strategy against a nuclear Iran more difficult...
...Moreover, what good would it do to bomb what we can see when we know iran's most important nuclear efforts may still be hidden from our targeteers...
...MIKE HERRIN Palos Verdes Estates, CA RAW ENERGY LEWIS LEHRMAN ("Energetic America, Sept...
...29) is not up to his usual high standards...
...This does not mean that we will run out of oil tomorrow, but it does mean that national energy policy pegged on an increased flow of ever cheaper petroleum is doomed to failure...
...If one reads Lucretius, instead of simply dipping into secondary sources, one finds that Lucretius believed in—and considered as proven—the existence of the gods...
...JOHN H. CHRISTMAN Cardiff, CA...
...First, Lehrman correctly notes that U.S...
...There is no such thing as "a .25 caliber automatic Colt revolver...
...Security Council will not solve anything...
...This peak will occur in spite of any drilling in previously off-limits wilderness or coastal areas...
...The question is whether the United States should try to take military action against Iran without the moral authority of Iran being found in violation of U.N...
...Such an overt military strike without even making a failed attempt to get iran condemned by the U.N...
...The best way to increase the safety of the American people with respect to iran's nuclear program is by adopting a policy of regime change in iran and unilaterally destroying iran's weapons stocks...
...Preventing the radical islamists in iran from obtaining nuclear weapons is too important to leave to the circus known as the United Nations...
...oil production peaked in 1975, but blithely blames the ensuing output drop on "environmental laws and lawsuits," rather than admit the real cause: We have already exhausted the bulk of the easily recoverable resource...
...The Golden Rule was the source of Epicurean and Stoic morality...
...Rosen really means a Colt pistol...
...CARL MEZOFF Stamford, CT BOMBS AWAY HENRY SOKOLSKI ("Stopping the iran Bomb," Sept...
...29) supports his argument for a national policy of cheap and abundant energy with graphs and statistics, but neglects two crucial problems that render his analysis flawed and his policy goals unattainable...
...Lucretius inveighed against superstition, and warned against the indecent behavior that is often the result of a belief in rewards and punishment after death...
...29) correctly identifies the danger of iran's nuclear ambitions, but his recommendation that we involve the U.N...
...GUN SHOW JAMES ROSEN ("What's Hidden in the LBJ Tapes," Sept...
...When a reactor generates waste that remains lethal for 200,000 years, it takes very thick rose-colored glasses to describe this technology as "cheap" and "clean burning...
...It would certainly increase iran's commitment to its bomb program...
...Based on analysis of rates of consumption and recoverable reserves remaining in the ground, a number of well-known petroleum geologists have predicted a similar peak will occur in world oil production in this decade...
...Lehrman also correctly notes that no new nuclear plants have been built in the last generation, but glosses over the reason for this...
Vol. 9 • October 2003 • No. 5
