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Charles Krauthammer's argument for invading Iraq in "The Terrible Logic of Nukes" [Essay, Sept. 2] is just that: terrible logic. Iraq wants nuclear weapons to balance Israel's, which built them to balance Arab conventional superiority. Pakistan wanted to balance India, which had to balance China, which had to balance Russia, which had to balance the U.S. and its allies, which had to balance Russia's presumed European-theater superiority. Throughout this balancing act, the world has been no more than 30 minutes away from Armageddon. The only logical way to keep nuclear weapons out of the hands...
...PHOTO ESSAY Dick Gephardt Hits the Trail...
...PHOTO ESSAY Dick Gephardt Hits the Trail...
...tireless question about the origin of the hatred toward the U.S. To answer questions like these, many of us turn to scholarship—for instance, to Princeton historian Bernard Lewis, who has described a narrative of Muslim bitterness provoked by a crusading Christian West. In his 1990 essay, The Roots of Muslim Rage, Lewis concludes that the U.S. and Islam represent worlds fated to clash...
...long trajectory of Naipaul's writing career is well represented in this book, which spans 40 years. In the first piece, he is a harassed and hard-up Trinidadian traveler in India in 1962. In the last essay he is venerable, addressing rubious generalities on such precepts as the Golden Rule to an august gathering at the Manhattan Institute in New York. His topic: "Our Universal Civilization." In the past, stuck for a book-length subject at home, he hoped to find it abroad as a reporter with a round-trip airfare. Except for one piece, all the essays here...