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...Nero, fiddling with the issues of same-sex marriage, abortion and flag burning while the Middle East is a conflagration, the global climate overheats and our health-care system crashes and burns. The slim majority that the Democrats have in both houses of Congress as a result of the midterm elections is not a mandate but a challenge to both major parties to work cooperatively to solve the nation's foreign and domestic problems. Kirk D. Gulden Wilkesboro, North Carolina...
...believe the midterm elections may finally swing the pendulum back from President Ronald Reagan's conservative revolution. But it took the needlessly spilled blood of too many young Americans to do it. Tragically, Reagan's "Morning in America" has become mourning in America. Russell Kussman Los Angeles...
...group's future. Joel Hunter, who resigned as president-elect only weeks after announcing his appointment, cast his departure as a clash between a wheezing organization fixated on the old "below-the-belt" issues of abortion and homosexuality, versus his post-modern view - buttressed by the results of the midterm election - of a more expansive Christian activism that also champions the environment and cares for the poor. Roberta Combs, who had picked Hunter to be her replacement as president, contends the real issue was Hunter's tendency to act unilaterally without clearance or consultation. Hunter says the coalition...
...Nero, fiddling with the issues of same-sex marriage, abortion and flag burning while the Middle East is a conflagration, the global climate overheats and our health-care system crashes and burns. The slim majority that the Democrats have in both houses of Congress as a result of the midterm elections is not a mandate but a challenge to both major parties to work cooperatively to solve the nation's foreign and domestic problems. Kirk D. Gulden Wilkesboro, North Carolina, U.S. I believe the midterm elections may finally swing the pendulum back from President Ronald Reagan's conservative revolution...
...strange and new, so it is inevitable that democratization will be a long, drawn-out process with many pitfalls along the way, with no guarantee that democracy will develop. You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make it drink. Andrew Hailstone Bangkok The U.S. midterm-election results signaled that Americans want a change in U.S. foreign policy. President Bush made a start by replacing Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld. The President should have followed that by removing John Bolton from his post as U.N. ambassador. Bush also ought to re-evaluate U.S. foreign policy toward Israel...