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...commentary "Awfully Ordinary," about how bin Laden looked on the tape, Lance Morrow called him "the John Gotti of jihad" for his delusion of self-importance [ESSAY, Dec. 24]. I couldn't help thinking of another comparison: Charles Manson. Both bin Laden and Manson collected mentally unstable, fringe-element losers to carry out the cold-blooded murder of innocent people. In their psychotic logic, both men expected to trigger revolutions that would lead them to power. Bin Laden is not a supervillain or a super anything. He's really just a Charles Manson with a rich daddy. KEVIN COLE Seattle...
...Lance Morrow's commentary about Islam and the West, "Who's More Arrogant?" [ESSAY, Dec. 10]: If arrogance is pride in one's superiority, then, yes, we Americans are hated for our arrogance by those who shouted for joy on Sept. 11. We are also hated for our technological superiority, our cities and skyscrapers, our constitutionally protected rights and our unprecedented standard of living. But if it's right to take pride in these achievements, then Americans, especially opinion makers like Morrow, need more arrogance, not less. KEVIN OSBORNE New Hartford, Conn...
...Morrow quoted the remarks of the Rev. Franklin Graham, who said, "The God of Islam is not the same God [as that of Christianity]. It's a different God, and I believe it is a very evil and wicked religion." But not all Christians embrace the views of Christianity's extreme fundamentalists. It is well established that there are varying sects of Islam, just as there is a multitude of denominations in Christianity. Yes, there have been failures in Islamic societies, but America has its share of shortcomings too. We have not eliminated poverty, racism and injustice in our country...
...flight across the Atlantic. The audacious feat made him a national hero--the recipient of euphoric parades, a Congressional Medal of Honor and a posting as a roving ambassador of goodwill. TIME called him "the most cherished citizen since Theodore Roosevelt." He completed his annus mirabilis by meeting Anne Morrow, whom he would marry in 1929. They would seek privacy, especially after their son was notoriously kidnapped and murdered in 1932, but both would remain lifelong celebrities--she as an author, he as a continuing aviation pioneer, an inventor who contributed to the artificial heart, an airline consultant...
...hope that what Lance Morrow described as our new "homeland," in which we have united against a common enemy, isn't true [ESSAY, Nov. 19]. Flag waving and appreciating police officers in our New Paradigm are wonderful, but how can Morrow say Sept. 11 has brought about "united diversity" and then remark that people want to send Detroit's entire Muslim community back where it came from? He may claim that this represents political incorrectness, which would have been censured under the Old Paradigm, but this is beyond that. It is pure racism. I don't want to go back...