The American Spectator

before penning your missive. You missed a key point. Nazis and Communists — two brands of the same product, regular and lemon-scented. We should have held off longer and let the philosophical cousins beat themselves (more) to a pulp — without the huge logistics support we provided the Soviets — then maybe they wouldn’t have had the strength to enslave Eastern Europe at the end. We now have 60 years of from which to evaluate WWII and its aftermath — no kindly references to “Uncle Joe” obscuring the nature of the Soviet Union. We were allies in only the most tendentiously circumscribed definition of the word. Better it were said we fought the same enemy. And, in that coincidence, there lies no obligation for honor. br> — Stephen Coyne /p> p> SODDEN SAM br> Re: Wlady Pleszczynski’s Precious Moments : /p> p>Thank you for your “Precious Moments” in which you quite rightly list the bad mouthed enemies of last week. Did you perchance overlook the remark of Sam Donaldson? No Thatcher admirer he. When commenting on the wonderful service in the National Cathedral he brushed aside Baroness Thatcher’s beautiful and clearly heartfelt eulogy as “altogether too stuffy for an American audience.” br> — Albert Ross br> Oxford, North Carolina br> /p>