“Larry Kelley is uniquely talented. But that is a minor characteristic compared to the fact that he has wisdom. His writings provide all the evidence that is needed for any reader to recognize both his talent and wisdom.”
Bruce Herschensohn
Professor of Public Policy—Pepperdine University
9/26/04
Director of Motion Pictures and Television for the U.S. Information Agency,
Deputy Special Assistant to Richard Nixon, Reagan Transition Team member,
1992 Republican candidate for U.S. Senate,
Fellow at the John F. Kennedy Insitute of Politics, Harvard University,
Professor of Public Policy, Pepperdine University,
and author of the 2003 epic novel of the Cold War, Passport.
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“Larry Kelley is an incisive critic of liberalism, and an informed observer of the contentious issues that most agitate American society.”
Peter Collier
Publisher, Encounter Books
—San Francisco
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“Larry Kelley’s review is a fine and balanced appraisal of what I was trying to do, that being to sort out the complexities of illegal immigration.”
Victor Davis Hanson
Author of Mexifornia, Historian, Syndicated Columnist,
and Professor Naval War College
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Dear Mr. Kelley,
In reading Larry Kelley’s comment on Ms. Ryan’s criticism of the United States action in Iraq, I was struck by Mr. Kelley’s sense of history, and consistency. The United States bombed Yugoslavia without prior UN or US Congressional approval. NATO troops remain in Kosovo to this day, trying to prevent a recurrence of the centuries’ old homicidal antipathy of Serb for Kosovar, and vice versa. Yet no liberal commentator ever raises an objection because this was a Democratic President’s war. President Clinton violated the US Constitution in prosecuting that war, but that seemed a minor thing to Democratic apologists. When, by contrast, President Bush went to the US Congress and obtained prior approval, and went to the UN and obtained a resolution in December, all he met was criticism from those who said he needed yet another UN resolution. The first Gulf War ended with the UN Security Council passing a resolution empowering the US to use force to enforce the terms of the truce, and all “subsequent” UN Resolutions on the topic as well. Saddam Hussein broke those terms, and expelled the inspectors. President Clinton did nothing to stand up to him. President Bush acted to protect us, the peoples of nations he might wish to attack at some time, and the Iraqi people themselves. Larry Kelley sees that because he has perspective and balance. His kind of view is rare, particulary in the kind of commentary one reads and hears in the Bay Area.
Tom Campbell
Five-Term United States Congressman,
San Jose
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Dear Mr. Kelley,
As a regular of the reader of the Chronicle Opinion page, and a conservative, I noticed that your pro Iraq war article, written in response to Joan Ryan’s request for some straight answers, seemed to change the official position emanating from the Chronicle editorial board. After its appearance, they stopped running anti-war editorials. Instead their official position changed to one where they demanded we get U.N. approval before attacking Iraq. I guess that gives us a window into what the progressives feel about U.S. sovereignty as well.
Rod Lincoln
Attorney,
San Francisco
