Word: essays
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...might ask ourselves if we, too, are guilty of making the hasty and vulgar variety of generalizations that are the pundits' bread and butter. Are we sometimes so eager, for example, to complete an essay as quickly as possible that we engage in merely superficial analysis? We appreciate insights, for sure, but do we always care to devote our own time and efforts to develop them on our own, especially when hurried, overly broad generalities will suffice...
Roger Rosenblatt is right: there can be no justice, including financial payments, to compensate for the Holocaust [ESSAY, April 12]. But how can one live with the hopeless assertion that here "injustice prevails"? If we confine the forces of good and evil to this world alone, evil will always win. SUSAN P. KEMPLE Southern Pines...
...read with great interest and sadness Charles Krauthammer's commentary "The Clinton Doctrine" [ESSAY, April 5], in which he quoted a foreign policy expert's description of managing the "teacup wars" of the world and the "uncivil civil wars" of nation-states. The interest came from its facts and logic, the sadness from the doctrine's "highfalutin moral principles [that] are impossible guides to foreign policy" and the inevitable wavering between the deplorable poles of hypocrisy and naivete. After reflection, however, I find that both President Clinton and Krauthammer are correct. The Kosovo affair seems like the pursuit of knowledge...
Krauthammer's ill-considered essay belies his usual knee-jerk hostility toward everything Clinton does. Krauthammer claims that the President meant for his "doctrine" to be "universal," and then the author unwittingly cites cases of U.S. nonintervention that disprove this claim. In fact, Clinton has never said the U.S. seeks to stop all humanitarian abuses in the world. And just because a goal is not fully obtainable doesn't mean it is not worth pursuing. Clinton's policy in the Balkans may be too reactive, but it would indeed be immoral not to stop Milosevic's rapes and murders...
...words my very sentiments in his piece "Nothing Means Something" [STEVE LOPEZ, April 5]. I'm glad to know that I'm not the only one who thinks a little Y2K shutdown might not be so terrible. When I asked my 16-year-old what he thought of this essay, his reply was, "I wouldn't want to waste my life that way [doing nothing]." Mmmmmm...I think the first night this spring that I walk outside to sit and listen to the frogs croaking in the distance, I'm going to unplug the computer and take my son with...