Posted March 16, 2002

Diversionary Tactic

You know, there's a couple things that don't quite add up about the Israeli "art student" episodes.

First, why would Mossad expend so much attention on the DEA? You'd think that plenty of other agencies would be of more interest to them than the DEA.

And second, why go about the snooping so blatantly? Dozens of presumed agents all deployed in similar fashion, being conspicuous enough to elicit over a hundred incident reports within the DEA: what's wrong with this picture? Why not just dress them up as Hare Krishna devotees and stage a mass invasion of DEA facilities? It'd make as much sense.

It's almost as if the whole "art" operation (if that's what it was) was intended as a diversionary tactic to draw attention away from something else. Or at least that's the only reason I can come up with.

~ JK

Radioactive Gas

[Regarding Justin Raimondo's column of March 11, "The Doomsday Doctrine:]

The value we place on oil alone would prove the bluff. What effect would a nuke or two have on the black gold below? I don't even think my NASCAR enthused friends will be interested in radioactive gas for their street machines.

~ Heron B.

One Key

[Regarding Justin Raimondo's column of March 11, "The Doomsday Doctrine:]

In the late '80s or maybe early '90s, when Ron Delums was the chair of the Congressional Armed Services Committee, he had a inquiry (public) concerning the nuke subs and the Trident (nuke) missiles.

Well, it came out by a extremely brave sailor that the so called two key system to launch the missiles had an override and the captain could punch in a code and just stick in the key and away they go.

...At first their was denial and then confirmation and then admission, but no change in procedure, as it's still the one key.

~ Larry L.

Meme Combination

I just read . . . [Justin Raimondo's column of March 11, "The Doomsday Doctrine," posted on] Rense.com. Wow! Concise, precise, resonates beyond time and space. Will do all I can to spread your meme combination to all in my demographic. I am antiwar too so I will link Antiwar.com on my web site. We will win.

~ Akira K., Australia

Aid

The letters of your readers today [March 13] were fantastic. I am so glad many people love your site!

As regards your top piece of news ["Bush Vows to Aid Other Countries in War on Terror," by Elisabeth Bumiller, The New York Times, March 12], although many governments would gladly queue up to receive money in exchange for exterminating (prefabricated or invented) terrorists in their countries, or anything else they might be asked to do, Mr. Bush's advisors should note ("The terrorists despise other religions and have defiled their own...") that:

The roots of terrorism -- anywhere -- are hunger, inequality, blatant double standards by those in power, hopelessness. Religion? What has that got to do with anything?

~ M. Cerritelli

Peace Prize

I think it behooves those of us who've retained a modicum of sanity to object to giving the Peace Prize to the executioner governor, cum fraudulent dictator president.

~ Carl R.

Debate

Perhaps . . . of interest is the debate in Washington DC on April 19 sponsored by Pat Buchanan's American Cause (1-703-237-2034). At 10 AM Buchanan and Robert Novak are scheduled to debate Richard Perle and William Kristol as to whether the U.S. should invade Iraq and whether Congressional consent is necessary to such a venture. Whether Israel is a strategic US asset and what role the US should play in the Mideast Peace Process is a 1 PM debate between Buchanan and Arnaud de Borchgrave against Frank Gaffney and Fred Barnes.

I hope you can send Scott McConnell or someone of equal caliber to cover this debate for your readers.

~ Guido S.