Extraordinarily rich crop of thoughtful, witty & erudite reader responses to

my 1979 piece on today’s NRO. I have to do garden clean-up work this

afternoon (for the great Memorial Day treehouse-warming party!!) but shall

take a break now & then to post some I particularly like. Here’s one that

made me smile:

“Holy Cow John—In 1979 ‘China invaded Vietnam, Vietnam invaded Cambodia,

Russia invaded Afghanistan’? I thought these altruistic compassionate

selfless redistributionists were unerringly ‘anti-war’. Communists invaded

these poor noble oppressed 3rd world innocents in response to what? WMD’s?

Terror threats? Was it all about oil? Was there a Halliburton subsidiary

in each of those aggressor nations? Wonder what Move on.org, International

ANSWER, Democratic Underground, Robert Fisk, Rachel Corrie, Ed Asner, Barbra

Streisand, Sean Penn, Janine Garafolo and Michael Moore were up to? I don’t

remember hearing from them! KBO—John Stotz.”