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Players, Choose Your Pitch As a white South African, I was disturbed by Vivienne Walt's "Field of Broken Dreams" [Sept. 24]. There are people who will never be satisfied despite massive reform within our country. I am sure I speak for most white South Africans when I say we are more than pleased to have put apartheid behind us and we would never support racial discrimination of that sort in our lifetime. The suggestion that a white élite school system has kept potential black players off the national team is ludicrous. If you travel to any corner...
...little confused as to why Walt thinks "future teams will have to integrate more, even at the expense of winning." Is it ethical to field a weaker team for political purposes and insult thousands of supporters who have paid their hard-earned cash to watch what should be a contest between the best players available? That would give the impression that in the "new South Africa" a new bigoted, stubborn political élite has replaced the old one. Stephen J. Lewis, HENFIELD, ENGLAND...
...second, the pair use a lowercase “l” in the word “lobby,” in contrast to the capital “L” used in the article. Many critics of the original essay had taken issue with Walt and Mearsheimer’s use of a capital “L,” saying that it made the lobby seem like a unified, monolithic “cabal” without internal disagreements...
...Many of the strongest voices of condemnation from the first time around have remained silent so far. Most notably, the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, a group that Walt and Mearsheimer say is the central part of the lobby—and, indeed, calls itself “America’s Pro-Israel Lobby”—has said it will not respond to the book, according to The Jerusalem Post...
...though Peretz Professor of Yiddish Literature Ruth R. Wisse has not directly commented on the book, she released a book of her own earlier this month titled “Jews in Power.” In it, Wisse makes a point of taking to task those who, like Walt and Mearsheimer, accuse the Bush administration of caving in to pressure from Jewish organizations when pushing to invade Iraq...