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...Riots in Athens What we saw in greece in the last few weeks was atrocious [Dec. 22]. Granted, a boy is dead from alleged police negligence, but that does not give license to hooded and masked anticapitalist anarchists to pillage communities and deface public and private property. These people should take a page from the citizenry of Australia and the United States, who showed their dissatisfaction with the powers that be with their right to vote. Since when has the right to an open government and democracy come from under a mask? Nicholas Chrisopoulos, Melbourne...
...Getting Out of Afghanistan Re Joe Klein's "The Aimless War": all the soldiers pictured with the article have the same haunting, tired, stressed, bewildered, questioning, faraway look [Dec. 22]. There is a saying, "The eyes are the portals to the soul of man." It is evident by the look in these soldiers' eyes that they are all asking, "What the hell is going on, and why are we here?" A better title for this story couldn't have been found. C.D. Rinck Sr., Mission, Kans...
...Paying More for Gas, Voluntarily With his proposal for broad new energy taxes, Michael Kinsley gets my vote for insight of the year [Dec. 22]. I don't like high gas prices any more than the next guy, but I would rather put the money to good use in the U.S. than send it to OPEC. The American people have demonstrated beyond a doubt that they can and will get by with less gas if there is a compelling reason in the form of a higher price at the pump. The enormous, unstated side benefit of Kinsley's proposal...
...Three's Bailout I can't understand why there's no talk in Congress about moving auto manufacturers' health-care systems into the federal system in exchange for an equity investment that - as journalist Thomas Friedman has suggested - requires the hybridization of their entire fleet [Dec. 15]. The federal system includes several large health-care units. Why not take Detroit's health-care needs off the automakers' hands and develop a single-payer system before rolling it out on a national scale? Not having to worry about the medical needs of personnel would make Detroit automakers better able to compete...
...Worry, Be Happy Your article "The Happiness Effect" reminded me of a highly revered saint in the Orthodox Christian Church - St. Seraphim of Sarov [Dec. 22]. He once said, "Learn to be peaceful, and thousands around you will find salvation." Thanks for the article. Lisa Lilles, Springfield...