Opinion and Letters*

EDITORIALS Annals of Obamalaw

Verdict first, trial afterward

WORRIED about trying the ringleader of the 9/11 terrorists and four of his close associates in a civilian courtroom?
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Afghans need support

The residents of the Afghan capital, both native and foreign, are waiting for President Obama to make up his mind. The president’s lengthy review of Afghan policy—the results of which he’s finally expected to announce around Thanksgiving—has created a dangerous sense of drift here.
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Can we still boldly go?

Maybe someone should stick a copy of The Right Stuff into the DVD player on President Obama’s long flight back from his mission to Asia.
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Obama v. Obama

CAN OUR president be catching on, or is he just pretending to?
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LETTERS

Remember ‘forgotten war’Meredith Oakley’s column on “the forgotten war,” Korea, was appreciated by this old vet. It provided those of us who served in that place a moment’s reflection, a pause while shaving that creased and lined face to ask, “Was I really that young once?”
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Jumping the gun

Barack Obama was just a wee lad the last time a president jumped the gun on the judicial process, so it probably never occurred to him to exercise a little verbal restraint.
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More book than face

It’s been just over a month since I dove face-first into the social network program Facebook. Knowing the origin of the site as an electronic version of a university class picture directory, I expected it to be a forum dominated by kids and college students.
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EDITORIALS One long sigh

How the news changes (us) . . .

THE FIRST word came from a friend. A colleague and friend.
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COLUMNISTS Bowing to world opinion

In the string of amazing decisions made during the first year of the Obama administration, nothing seems more like sheer insanity than the decision to try foreign terrorists, who have committed acts of war against the United States, in federal court, as if they were American citizens accused of crimes.
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The nation’s jobs conundrum

Unemployment is now at 10.2 percent, and if you count the people who have stopped looking for jobs, the rate is probably closer to 17 percent. The U.S. economy continues to shed jobs, making this the worst recession since World War II.
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To save the animals

THERE ARE three wolves. Then there’s that gray fox, the raccoon and three deer, including the one born without eyes. The fact is, Jim Orr’s got a slew of animals he’s been raising who badly need new homes.
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War as industry

Hurry, hurry. There’s no time for thinking; it’s time to act.
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LETTERS

More honor due the fallen Mind you, I do not in any way mean to diminish the tragic deaths of the 13 men and women who were killed on their home soil after they had just returned from or were preparing to ship out and fight for their country. I remind you that they were to a person part of a completely volunteer military force risking life and limb in their service to this country.
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Dept. of Correspondence

Dear Unhappy With Us, It is never wholly a pleasure, or a pleasure at all, to lose a subscriber, especially one like you, who tells me he’s been with us for 35 years through thick and thin and in-between.
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EDITORIALS Shoot to win

Talk about fierce competition

RICHARD PRYOR—the late, great American commentator, sociologist and all around observer and imitator—once said the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor in 1941 because, after studying at colleges and universities on the West Coast, they concluded that Americans were too laid back to fight.
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