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...Manly Hand Holding Joe Klein's column "the perils of Hands-On Diplomacy" [May 9] called attention to the photo of President Bush walking down an uneven path in Texas hand in hand with the infirm 80-year-old Prince Abdullah of Saudi Arabia. There is nothing "unmanly"?as Klein characterized it?in extending a helping hand. Klein seems to lack any cultural awareness of the world outside the U.S. Dan Bloom Chiayi, Taiwan...
...Klein's column "Hillary in 2008? No Way!" spelled out why it's a bad idea for Senator Clinton to run for President [May 16]. I agree with much of Klein's assessment of Hillary's possible candidacy. What the Senator will find out, should she run, is that all the old questions regarding Whitewater, her plans for revamping health care and her conduct toward her White House staff will come back to hit her with the fury of a tsunami. It will be a massive political and media sideshow...
...Pressing Tony Blair I was pleased that columnist Joe Klein mentioned BBC interviewer Jeremy Paxman in his article on Tony Blair's election campaign [May 2]. Paxman's pointed questioning of Blair about the Iraq war is exactly the kind of journalism that politicians hate: relentless pressure for direct answers. Over the years several interviewees have actually walked out of on-air sessions because of Paxman's rigorous approach?the kind of tough-style journalism that the U.S. media need to adopt. They are far too deferential to U.S. politicians and let them get away with scripted and misleading answers...
...challenging, rewarding, puzzling voyage of discovery. It's an unmapped road, and we're all going down it for the first time - but together. With luck, our descendants won't have to recover from anything very poisonous. Peter Terry Kelvin, South Africa Manly Hand-Holding Joe Klein's column "the perils of Hands-On Diplomacy" [May 9] called attention to the photo of President Bush walking down an uneven path in Texas hand in hand with the infirm 80-year-old Prince Abdullah of Saudi Arabia. There is nothing "unmanly" - as Klein characterized it - in extending a helping hand. Klein...
...Klein was insightful in asking if Bush might have done better to concentrate on energy independence instead of revamping Social Security. Klein's column was fun to read, but it missed the real point: Was our President being subservient to Prince Abdullah to get better oil prices so the American people might benefit? Or was it an attitude characteristically displayed by Bush, his father and their business associates in their longtime relationship with the Saudis and therefore having nothing to do with affecting current oil prices...