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...READERS 8 LETTERS 11 10 QUESTIONS: Larry Summers 17 NOTEBOOK 19 MILESTONES 26 IN THE ARENA: Joe Klein on Israel's new definition of normalcy...
...Portrait of a Platoon," written by Romesh Ratnesar and Michael Weisskopf and edited by Lisa Beyer and Steve Koepp, won the National Headliner Award for war coverage, while Joe Klein won first place in the magazine-column category. Weisskopf and Nachtwey won the Daniel Pearl Award for Courage from the Los Angeles Press Club. And Weisskopf, Brian Bennett and Michael Ware won honorable mention for best magazine reporting from abroad from the Overseas Press Club for a series of Iraq pieces...
...Klein criticized Condoleezza Rice, President Bush's National Security Adviser, for being impractical in her strategic approach to world issues [April 19]. But Klein is misguided. An impractical thinker looks at the bigger picture, including the larger results of actions. I would take an impractical, big dreamer over someone focused on tactics who has lost sight of what is important. JEFFREY I. KAPLAN Paramus...
...arguing that Bush's foreign policy is strategic rather than tactical, Klein misses an important point. Bush seems to rely on one factor: force. If the President's foreign policy were a novel, it would be titled America Uber Alles: Might Makes Right. Bush treats our allies with the same contempt and coercion that he uses on our adversaries. His worst failing may be that to garner domestic support, he has bypassed patriotism and resurrected nationalism. Our government has gone back to the bumper-sticker mentality of MY COUNTRY, RIGHT OR WRONG. But being a bully is not a viable...
...Klein's Essay illustrated Einstein's famous saying that imagination is more important than knowledge. Bush claimed that he would have done something if he had known exactly when and where al-Qaeda would strike. The statement makes plain the Administration's failure to appreciate that the mishandling of the threat from al-Qaeda was not a failure of intelligence but a failure of imagination. MICHAEL H. WEISS Marina del Rey, Calif...