The American Spectator

Enemy of the Week

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Home Page on the web. It’s a smoking gun. In a recent cover story for Harper’s , he writes that the world is running out of fresh water. He’s especially proud of this piece, nonetheless, because it "made me feel I’d finally found the marriage of voice, style, and subject I’d been seeking." Nice to hear a progressive put in a good word for marriage. More importantly: "The [fresh water] topic was a slice of what I take to be the great looming story of the twenty-first century, the unraveling of the global environment." You’d think he’d attend the picnic just to deliver a greeting from Al Gore. p>There is other evidence that Mr. Leslie and Mr. Bush weren’t frat brothers. As he boasts about his days as a L.A. Times reporter in Vietnam, in 1973 " I became the first American journalist to enter and return from Viet Cong territory." Above the posted reprint , we’re told: "This story was a considerable coup. It was written on two hours’ sleep in the previous 48 hours." Breathtakingly respectful of authority, it includes such gems as this interview with an on the record Viet Cong source: p> I>During our dinner I asked [Communist village chief Le Hoang] Oanh how he felt about eating with an American after having fought against the United States for so many years. p>"We consider that there are two kinds of Americans," he said. "One we call imperialists, who come with bombs and weapons to kill our people and destroy our land. They are our enemies." p>"However, the cease-fire is an agreement of reconciliation and we don’t see anyone as our enemy anymore. p>"The second kind of American we call peaceful and progressive. They do not come here to destroy or kill-- they are people like Martin Luther King and the movie actress Jane Fonda. We do not see them as our enemies, but as helping us. We really appreciate Americans such as those in the women’s movement who prevent their sons from fighting in South Vietnam. p>"You can recognize friendship easily. If we were not friends we would not sit down and eat at the same table. If we were not friends, we would not talk about the things we are talking about now," Oanh said.

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