HONORARY NEW YORKER
Re: Paul Beston’s Ground
Zeroes:
Please ask Mr. Beston which planes were flown or occupied by
Iraqis on 9-11. Then tell him I am a Christian, make moral choices
all the time and I find this war immoral and Bush near insane.
— Teresa Welby
Pennsylvania
SURVIVAL OF THE FITTEST
Re: George Neumayr’s After
the Fall:
Perhaps being over in France, George Neumayr hasn’t heard about
the visa lines at the French Embassy in Syria. Escaping Iraqi
Baathists may feel more at home in Chirac’s Paris than with their
cousins in Damascus.
— Lloyd Coffin
And thus the Islammummification of France continues apace. Perhaps
it’s time for TAS to ask its readers to suggest a new name for the
country, since current demographics will make France a Muslim
country in a generation or so.
My suggestion: Darwinistan.
— David Govett
Davis, CA
CAUGHT IN THE ACT:
Re: R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr.’s Looney
Clooneys:
Must be something in the water in Hollywood, where most of the
inmates are deeply embedded in their own navels.
Clooney certainly is loony. And Tim Robbins is not just a fool,
but a near about perfect fool (and a perfect partner for the aging
but still dishy bubblehead he hangs out with). He has no more
control over his mouth and his febrile imagination than Nuke
LaLoosh had over his fastball in Bull Durham. Too bad this
isn’t baseball. We could just call time, walk to the mound, and
give him the hook.
— Larry Thornberry
Tampa, FL
So what is it that seems to make so many “good” actors the really
“bad” ones? You could make a very long list of America’s favorites
from TV to the silver screen who have been really enjoyed as they
did their jobs but ended up pulling a rug out from under you. Not
that it is impossible to disconnect from their apparent personal
views and still enjoy the show, but it does take away from the
experience. Perhaps the working stiffs of the world can separate
fact from fiction. The list of “bad” actors is interesting however.
I just marvel at my prior opinions of Ed Asner, Alan Alda, Mike
Farrell, Danny Glover and on and on. With every alleged crisis
there is someone new that gets type-cast. I’m almost afraid to ask
about some of the other old favorites out there. I’d rather not
know.
— Roger Ross
Concerning your statement: “Maybe they are just poseurs, though if
ever a chain of men’s underwear shops is opened for ‘sadistic
creeps,’ I think Tim Robbins would make an inviting poster
boy.”
Nah, too old….
— J. Shenk
Someone should find out who wrote Tim Robbins’ Press Club speech.
It was too smooth, touched ALL the Lib bases — must have been
written by a lefty pro!
— Brooks Hughes
(One of Ann Arbor’s thirty-two right-wingers)
EARLY BIRDS
Re: Francis X. Rocca’s Pillage
People and Reader Mail’s Museum
Pieces:
According to a number of “on the ground” reports — I have no
way to confirm any of this, saw it on InstaPundit — the museum was
looted in the days before the U.S. Military appeared on the scene
by ranking members of the outgoing government. How else to explain
the fact that certain items were already on the market in France
four days ago. This to me would seem to exonerate the U.S.
completely. Where are the reporters/investigators on this one?
— Chuck Scanland
Spring, TX
It seems to me that the true culprits in the looting of Iraq’s
so-called “cultural heritage” are the “human shields.” Instead of
using their precious bodies to protect Saddam’s power plants and
military installations, the “human shields” should have protected
Iraq’s museums and historic sites.
There is still hope! All of Iraq’s “cultural artifacts” have not
been lost! The “human shields” still have an opportunity to protect
the plastic shredding machines with which Saddam dispatched his
victims, the various torture chambers used by his minions, and the
mass graves of Saddam’s victims. These and other modern Iraqi
cultural artifacts are certainly as valuable to history as the ones
left by Iraq’s ancient despots. The “human shields” should protect
these modern Iraqi artifacts and perhaps try them out on one
another in order to gain a fuller appreciation of Iraqi
culture.
— Tillman L. Jeffrey
Manteca, CA
THE CRUSADE STOPS HERE
Re: Jeremy Lott’s Left
Behind:
Jeremy Lott is dead wrong on the Franklin Graham business.
Keeping Christian missionaries out of Iraq has little to do with
freedom of religion. In point of fact there already exist in Iraq,
along with Moslems, Assyrian Catholics, known as Chaldeans. And
they co-existed peaceably under the old regime for many years. They
were not persecuted as is the case in other Islamic countries in
the Middle East.
Mr. Graham and the Christian missionaries must be kept out in
order to prevent the perception developing that the missionaries
are in fact little more than extensions of a U.S. imperialist
effort.
Graham and his fellow co-religionists will wind up creating more
problems than they are worth if allowed into Iraq.
— Carl W. Goss
