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No More Insults

3.24.03 @ 12:01AM

TOO MEAN
Re: Enemy Central's Nixed Doubles:

Enemy Central started off just great, but then it deteriorated into personal insult. Too bad.
-- Paul Kellogg
New York, NY

NEW DEMOCRATS
Re: The Washington Prowler's This Bash Won't Be Fun:

Jim Moran's behavior is nothing new -- just the feigned outrage by his Democratic fellows in the Congress. They will go to any lengths to excuse anti-Semitic or race baiting by one of their own. Whether it's Al Sharpton, Jesse "Hymie Town" Jackson, Robert "The Grand Dragon" Byrd, Democrats become extremely tolerant when one of their own waves the bloody shirt of bigotry. Does anyone doubt that a Republican Congressman would be spinning on a spit if he or she has uttered the same crude, thoughtless remark concerning the state of Israel? One hopes the Republican Party can find an alternative to this ignorant cipher next year. The sad truth is most of Moran's constituents would vote for a Democrat if he stood at the polling place with a sheet on.
-- Chris Healy
Hartford, CT

"Moran is now claiming that one reason for saying what he said was that his district has one of the largest numbers of Muslim and Arab-American voters in the U.S."

So Moran insults the Jews to curry favor with Muslims and Arabs? Yeah, sounds like the typical garden-variety Democrat.
-- Paul Higdon

What I don't understand is Jewish support for Democrats in the first place.
-- unsigned

SWISS MIX
Re: R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr.'s The Last International:

It's a bit unfair: now that we, the people of Switzerland, are finally fully integrated in the UN (we've had the privilege of paying much money for UN activities for a long time, but we were not a full member), you're telling me that the party is over. Mind you, in our country it isn't up to a few politicians to say "hey, let's join that club," we had to coax a majority of the electorate into spending that extra international money. So we're irritated.

Having been skeptical for half a century ourselves, we can understand your disdain. I suggest that the USA step out of the UN, the organization be re-established in Paris so that our delegation could save on travel expenses.

In your absence, you could read up on the meaning of veto. It was introduced to bar any action envisaged by others just in case that one member had a serious problem with it. Not easy to swallow for those who would rather go ahead, but an important way of showing respect for minority positions. You blew it. Now everybody around the globe knows that you don't respect the rules.

The French are not easy customers. Neither are the USA and many others. From now on -- that's your message -- countries are free to do whatever is in their power, unrestricted by the law.

I wish the coalition soldiers success with Saddam Hussein. And the
aftermath.
-- Kurt Schori
Biel-Bienne, Switzerland

WAR COMES TO SADDAM
If you will excuse my lapse into the American vernacular: "WOO-HOO!"
-- Peter Phelps
Canberra, Australia

LA MÊME CHOSE
Re: Mark Goldblatt's Minstrel Show :

Letter to the Editor

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