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Richard Stengel's "The New Patriotism" was helpful in understanding the theme of this presidential election [July 14]. Upholding American ideals makes us better citizens, but candidates tend to look for hot buttons to create fear. Dissent isn't unpatriotic. We need a definition of patriotism that recognizes our nation's proud heritage but also how much better we can be. Steven A. Ludsin, EAST HAMPTON...
...issue is not how patriotism should be expressed. The issue is whether it is a positive force in the world. I don't think it is. Patriotism is what kept the media from questioning plans for invading Iraq before the war started. Fear of being labeled unpatriotic is what kept more legislators from voting against authorizing the invasion. The U.S. has a long history of not living up to its ideals. That's because more importance is placed on shallow expressions of honor and love of country than on making sure that all people are being treated equitably. We tend...
...Third, and most important, international justice, when carried out, offers many benefits: it can help establish a historical record, provide dignity to victims, establish individual (rather than collective) responsibility so as to end cycles of violence, and - once prospective criminals begin to fear enforcement - deter. But the most crucial functions of international indictments and arrest warrants are ones that are rarely heralded: stigmatization and incapacitation of really bad people. Even to the world's worst actors, that can be a powerful incentive to behave. It's revealing that since the ICC issued its request for an arrest warrant, Sudan...
...foreign industrial goods, the American economy risks losing the very industries that have kept it strong for decades. Says John Young, chief executive of Hewlett-Packard and former head of President Reagan's Commission on Industrial Competitiveness: ''Manufacturing is the foundation upon which a service economy is built.'' Fears of deindustrialization are a major force behind protectionist sentiments in Congress, which are rising in a new crescendo. In the past year more than 200 restrictive trade measures have appeared in the congressional hopper, aimed at sheltering a wide variety of American industries from foreign competition. Says Sidney Jones, an economist...
...night little city of 30,000, is the place to visit the Red Dog Saloon at twilight, which falls somewhere around midnight, and see the St. Nicholas Russian Orthodox Church, a tiny jewel box built in 1894. It is also a place to catch the scent of fear among businessmen who depend on boomtown prosperity. Alaska's oil boom has busted, but tourism may bail everyone out. Twenty-five ship tours are headed for southeast Alaska this summer, some of them run by firms that pulled out of the Mediterranean after terrorism wrecked the cruise business there. Governor Bill Sheffield...