Editor, N.H.: This is in reply to J.N.’s letter "Gore the lesser of two evils. (Dec. 6, 2000) .In German there is a saying: Mitgegangen, mitgehangen -you went along, you hang along; in other words, Gore was part and thereby is tainted by the Clinton administration. .
Clinton's great misdeed was not his perjury, as bad as it was, but the giving of an unconditional loan guaranty of $10 billion to Israel. J.N. speculates if the editor is one of the Know Nothings, but I wonder about N.’s memory. Let me therefore take him back to 1992.
10/28/00 Editor: The present Israeli-Palestinian conflict brought to my mind a confrontation I witnessed between our cat and a mouse. The cat, named Mulli, always went camping with us. On our first trip I brought cat food, but Mulli preferred her own food and went mousing. Late in the evening when we were in our sleeping bags, we heard the crunching of little bones outside our tent. Nobody felt sorry for the mouse. It was out of sight, out of compassion.
10/20/99 Editor, N.H.: My best friend told me the following story. One evening her boyfriend accompanied her home. She had brought an umbrella which he usurped when it started to rain. Dreamily looking out into the drizzle he said: "On a night like this I wish I could take everybody out there under my umbrella" while all along he had held the umbrella straight up leaving her out in the rain. This brings me to John Cornwell's book "Hitler's Pope" discussed in the M.N.H, September 8, l999.
