“I believe the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction presents the greatest threat that the world has ever known.” Bill Cohen, at his 1997 confirmation hearings to be Clinton’s Defense Department Secretary Like that long-ago ride on the back of her home-town bad boy’s motorcycle, I can imagine how Susan Sarandon may have gotten a [...]
The gravest danger this nation faces is the conjunction of terrorism, Rogue states, and weapons of mass destruction. In reading a recent prescription for Democrat duplicity, by USA Today’s DeWayne Wickham titled, If Democrats lay low on war, Bush will defeat himself, I found myself wondering what part of President Bush’s new security policy, the [...]
“I don’t think there’s a war here, a war front here in the United States at this point. I think if the whole scenario continues the way it has, inevitably the United States is going to be reaching a type of war front. Yeah. But not right now.” Mohammad al-Asi of the Islamic Education Center [...]
Ms. Ryan – In response to your distinctly disingenuous plea (editorial page, Sept. 29th) for straight answers to the questions posed by President Bush’s embrace of preemption, unilateralism, and reckless militarism (for brevity –PURM), let me try to oblige by asking you to consider the following scenario. Imagine the Bush White House takes your counsel [...]
The Confessions of Neo Don Quiote and a Decidedly Over-the-Hill Holden Caulfield Reading my hometown newspaper, I was elated to learn that our lone high school here in Piedmont ranks near the top in the nation in its percentage of students accepted to Yale, Harvard, and Princeton. Contemplating our class of ’02 sons and daughters [...]
“War is not merely a material struggle, but more often a referendum on the spirit.” The brilliant military historian, Victor Davis Hanson, goes on, “ No nation has ever survived once its citizenry ceased to believe its culture was worth saving.” On this year’s July Fourth we are not only celebrating our country’s independence, but [...]
Letter to the San Francisco Chronicle, September 19, 2001
David Broder’s article is stunningly specious Although he’s considered the dean of Washington-based liberal progressive columnists, nearly every point in David Broder’s recent, Congress Cooks the Books at the Nation’s Peril, was stunningly specious. He begins his piece by citing polling data that validates his tactic of leveling charges against conservative politicians such as Bush [...]
The Confessions of Neo Don Quixote and a Decidedly Over-the-Hill Holden Caulfield Yup, there are times, more frequent recently, when my wife would prefer to trade me in for a good deal more circumspect cocktail-party companion. And I confess, I’ve developed a condition that can only be construed as eminently self-destructive. Moreover, I confess, it’s [...]
