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...Unbearable Reflections In "Their Humiliation, and America's" [May 17], essayist Nancy Gibbs wrote that the pictures from Abu Ghraib forced Americans "to see ourselves as the world sees us"?as oppressors without respect for other countries' citizens, their culture or history. I don't believe that Americans are that way, but the scandal has given jihadists a gift of incalculable value. How many gruesome, savage executions will they commit as retribution for the humiliation and mistreatment of Iraqi prisoners? Scott Blanchard Napoleonville...
...People's Economy Re "Where Presidents Have No Power" [May 10]: essayist Charles Krauthammer had the guts to say what every Republican knows?that in a capitalist country the people, not the President, affect the economy. If Americans spend billions of dollars on foreign products, U.S. unemployment goes up. If they buy products made in America, our unemployment goes down. It's human nature to blame the President for our mistakes, but if we really cared about U.S. workers, we would support them by buying U.S.-made products. Cleve Mark McVane Jr. Pleasant Hill...
...Their Humiliation, And Ours" [May 17], essayist Nancy Gibbs wrote that the pictures from Abu Ghraib had painfully forced Americans "to see ourselves as the world sees us"--as oppressors without respect for other countries' citizens, their culture or history. I don't believe that Americans are that way, but the scandal has given jihadists a gift of incalculable value. How many gruesome, savage executions will they commit as retribution for the humiliation and mistreatment of Iraqi prisoners? SCOTT BLANCHARD Napoleonville...
...that render us sleepless. Faced with the globalized inhumanity that is burning the 21st century, Kouchner is introducing a new humanism without geographical or political borders. He does it not to open the gates of paradise, but to bolt the gates of hell. --BY ANDRE GLUCKSMANN, philosopher and political essayist...
DIED. JOHN GREGORY DUNNE, 71, novelist, essayist and (in collaboration with his wife Joan Didion) screenwriter; of a heart attack; in New York City. For five years in the late '50s, he was a writer for TIME. His novels (Dutch Shea, Jr.; True Confessions) were full of Irishry--tough and compassionate, knowing without being cynical, true expressions of a complicated, cranky, lovable man whose hatred of hypocrisy was legendary. But his best subject was Hollywood, which he anatomized in two books (Monster; The Studio) and many articles. These were inside jobs--but without the malevolence and condescension many writers bring...