Correspondence
Correspondence FEELING HIS WAY HAVING BEEN a fellow "Predator" on bus two, I have to applaud Matt Labash's insightful reporting of the whole stage-managed media circus that was driven by Arnold's...
...Our future depends on it...
...To make such a claim is statistically erroneous, for the following reasons: The term "margin of error" refers to the sort of random, quantifiable error associated with drawing inference from a random sample to a larger population...
...Being a photographer, it was an interesting experience to actually pay for the privilege of taking the same shots of Arnold at a dozen different locations over four days...
...The real reasons underlying President Bush's decision to remove Saddam Hussein are often lost in the torrent of day-to-day trivialities and spin crafted by Paul Krugman, David Sanger, the New Yoirk Times editorial staff, and the network news anchors...
...DAVID ELLIS New York, NY TOUCH OF EVIL NOEMIE EMERY'S "The Out of Touch Party" (Oct...
...20) reiterates a popular fallacy: that the 2000 Florida presidential election results were within a "margin of error...
...DAVID J. STEINBERG Alexandria, VA I APPLAUD ROBERT KAGAN and William Kristol for their outstanding "Why We Went to War...
...The United States could have also designed a dramatic, region-wide, economic-development strategy for the Middle East as the framework for addressing all our concerns in the region...
...MIKE FOX San Francisco, CA WAR GAMES ROBERT KAGAN and William Kristol's Oct...
...Alfred North Whitehead once wrote that "style is the ultimate morality of mind...
...I guess that's show biz...
...But Kagan and Kristol thankfully bring us back within the proper historical context in order to evaluate whether the United States should have overthrown Saddam or not...
...So while it may be attractive to try to understand the election in statistical terms, to do so is to use statistics improperly...
...First, the United States could have solicited the multilateral military assistance to which we are entitled as members of NATO (testing the very credibility of this formidable military alliance...
...security...
...And more importantly, if errors were made in the vote count, that sort of error is not quantifiable according to any statistical "margin of error...
...The distortion of truth is not so much in what Didion says as in how she says it...
...We can only hope that more wise men like Kagan and Kristol will step up against the face of the New York Times's daily onslaught of "Niger uranium" minutiae and keep us focused on the big picture...
...Unfortunately, neither strategy was effectively pursued by the Bush administration...
...20 editorial, "Why We Went to War," fails to address at least two potentially productive alternatives to the way the United States opted to overthrow Saddam Hussein's regime—alternatives capable of energizing an impressively multilateral strategy to defuse the threat Saddam posed to U.S...
...I know that he means to praise Didion for her verbal adeptness...
...Judged against that standard, Didion's style is distorting and meretricious...
...Whether it is Clinton's "unholy axis" or Bush's "axis of evil," it is abundantly clear that the nexus of WMD and terrorist networks has created one of the most terrifying threats the free world has ever faced...
...Correspondence FEELING HIS WAY HAVING BEEN a fellow "Predator" on bus two, I have to applaud Matt Labash's insightful reporting of the whole stage-managed media circus that was driven by Arnold's highly motivated and uncannily manipulative press crew ("Arnold Uber Alles," Oct...
...DAVID RANKIN Torrance, CA...
...PATRICK PETERSON Versailles, KY JOAN OF ART DAVID KLINGHOFFER says he reads Joan Didion not for truth but for style ("Slouching Towards California," Oct...
...Indeed, if an intelligent person were to listen only to the mainstream media since Saddam's statue fell, he would likely agree with Howard Dean that our reasons for overthrowing Saddam were either misguided, superficial, or downright fraudulent...
...If the way in which the United States pursued war with Iraq exemplifies our government's approach to other threats to our national security, I am less than confident about the security of the United States and of this country's overall stature in a world in dire need of impressive statesmanship...
...But an election is not a sample— its purpose is not to estimate the intent of the larger population...
...But in doing so he separates two inseparable terms...
Vol. 9 • November 2003 • No. 8
