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Three cheers for Pat Moynihan [Jan. 26]! He is the epitome of the American success story-from bootblack and bartender to ambassador...
...Moynihan rivals William F. Buckley as a purveyor of grandiloquent nonsense...
Palestine and the Palestinians are indestructible. Mr. Moynihan knows it. His "act" is for home consumption...
Even more importantly Moynihan has challenged the attempt by third world dictators to blame their domestic problems on the American people--a key strategy by which these despots seek to maintain power. In the past thirty years, third world left-wing dictatorships, often secured by military coup, have established heavily collectivized economies, made torture, censorship, and political oppression a part of everyday life, and virtually banished democracy and respect for individual rights. One result of this has been failing economies crushed under the weight of totalitarian socialism. Another has been political unrest generated by economic disaster and political oppression...
Ambassador Moynihan, by valiantly defending the U.S. against the absurd charges of third world dictators, has done much to foil their attempts to draw attention from their own disastrous civil and economic policies, providing a great service to both Americans and third world citizens. Furthermore, by weakening the self-serving attempts of dictators to create antagonisms between the peoples of the U.S. and the third world, Moynihan has performed a truly reconciliatory role in the relations between these peoples. It is, in any case, absurd to claim that Moynihan's statements at the U.N. were leading to antagonistic relations with...