The American Spectator

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I fail to see what good it does America for Musharraf to go beyond the line of what is possible and get himself killed. Who would take his place? Would his replacement be as good an ally to us? What would happen to his countries nuclear weapons? There are many more questions if Musharraf were to be assassinated or deposed. Perhaps it would be good for Bush or Rice to recognize that they can only get so much out of our individual allies in that part of the world.

p>The cities and small towns of Pakistan and Afghanistan ain't exactly Crawford, Texas. br> -- Ken Shreve br> New Hampshire /p> p> RUSSELLMANIA br> Re: The "Seitzmograph" letters in Reader Mail's Grace Under Pressure : /p>

Regarding letters of reply to mine on Paul Chesser's Newsweek: Alarmed by Deniers:

According to Mr. Briner, "Mr. Chesser claimed that Sharon Begley cited the 4th report by the Panel on Climate Change and Russell Seitz made it clear that there is no way she should be citing it if she can't even look at it yet. Somehow this ends up being a criticism of Mr. Chesser which I don't understand ..."

I wrote nothing suggesting that Sharon Begley failed to read the IPCC report, and assume she followed its progress as thousands, many critical, have, by reading it online. We owe thanks to the American delegation for securing the transparency of the IPCC process, just as Mike Crichton's CalTech speech suggested in 2003, by insisting that the work in progress be made accessible on the web.

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Abortion, Constitution, Pakistan, Nuclear Weapons