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Russell Seitz br> Cambridge, Massachusetts /p> p> Jeffrey Lord replies: br> Many thanks to Russell Seitz for illustrating precisely the problem with the modern American Left. Says Mr. Seitz: "When Jeffrey Lord was an infant, it ['the existential threat to America,' as Seitz phrases it] consisted in Axis forces comprising millions of troops, and thousands of ships and warplanes of a tripartite alliance supported by colonial resources captured from several of the greatest empires the world has ever known, and one of the nations in that axis being the acknowledged technological superior of Great Britain." /p>

The question, Mr. Seitz, is just how did all of what you describe materialize in the first place when at its core was one lone imprisoned Austrian corporal who was quite decidedly mad? Winston Churchill spent an entire decade pleading with his fellow Englishmen to stop Germany from becoming, as you describe, Great Britain's technological superior. As the record tellingly shows, he was rebuffed over and over again.

The decided split between Americans in this election is between people who, figuratively, would dine on McDonald's and cigars every meal for years and wonder why they "suddenly" have both heart disease and lung cancer, and those who believe exercise and a proper diet are the key to good health and the prevention of very bad things physical.

The only way to stop 19 fanatics with box cutters on a plane from becoming a government selling or handing off nuclear weapons to terrorists is to stop the fledgling Hitlers in their tracks. Whatever will unfold in our future, Saddam Hussein will not have nuclear weapons. Having followed liberal sentiments through the graces of the Clinton/Carter psychology in North Korea, all the rest of us must now face the consequences.

That, sir, is the core of the debate as I and many in the country see the current situation. And whatever happens in this election the issue, disturbingly, will not be settled.

The one thing you would have going for you up there in those Harvard precincts (Massachusetts being my native state) is that you are (presumably!) a Red Sox fan.

Such a choice means a lifetime of serious thinking about how things came to be.

Thanks for writing.

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