The Weekly Standard, Volume 7, Number 19, January 28, 2002

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Contents
January 28, 2002 • Volume 7, Number 19
2 Scrapbook. . . . . . . . The Nation, James Earls, and more. 6 Correspondence. . . . . . . . . . . . On racial profiling, etc.
4 Casual . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . David Tell, scofflaw. 11 Editorial. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Farmer Daschle
Articles
12 A Historian and Her Sources Doris Kearns Goodwin’s borrowed material.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . BYBOCRADER
14 How the Father Figures Why does the press ignore the story of John Walker Lindh’s dad?. . . . . . . . . . . . BYHARRYSTEIN
18 Cocktails in Pakistan In the Muslim world, a drink is never just a drink.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . BYTUCKERCARLSON
20 The Missing Lynx Is honesty in government an endangered species?. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . BYWOODYWEST
21 Recruiters for Jihad Meet the Tablighi Jamaat—right here in the U.S.A. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . BYSTEPHENSCHWARTZ
Features
24 Preempting Terrorism
The case for anticipatory self-defense. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . BYMICHAELJ. GLENNON
28 Distinguishing Terrorists from Busboys
How to think about immigration. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . BYTAMARJACOBY
Cover: AP / Wide World Photos
Books & Arts
33 The Spy Who Went to Mass Three books on Robert Hanssen.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . BYJUSTINTORRES
37 Under Western Eyes What went right and wrong in the reform of Eastern Europe.. . . . . . . . . BYMELANAZYLAVICKERS
39 Fathers & Daughter Trilling, Barzun, Fadiman—and Carolyn Heilbrun.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . BYMARTINLEVIN
41 The Ice-Blue Angel The cold beauty of Marlene Dietrich.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . BYLISASINGH
43 THESTANDARDREADER . . . . . . . . . . . . . Books on the 2000 election, the New York Post, and the highest interests of man.
44 Parody. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . If a former executive of Andersen Accounting had worked in the real estate business.
William Kristol,Editor Fred Barnes, Executive Editor
David Tell, Opinion Editor David Brooks, Christopher Caldwell, Senior Editors Richard Starr, Claudia Winkler, Managing Editors
J. Bottum, Books & Arts Editor Matt Labash, Senior Writer Stephen F. Hayes, Staff Writer
Victorino Matus, David Skinner, Assistant Managing Editors Lee Bockhorn, Associate Editor
Jonathan V. Last, Online Editor Bo Crader, Beth Henary, Elizabeth Royal, Editorial Assistants
Katherine Rybak Torres, Art Director Jan Forbes, Production Manager Kent Bain, Design Consultant
Tucker Carlson, John J. DiIulio Jr., Noemie Emery, Joseph Epstein, Andrew Ferguson, David Frum (on leave), David Gelernter,
Brit Hume, Robert Kagan, Charles Krauthammer, Tod Lindberg, P. J. O’Rourke, John Podhoretz, Irwin M. Stelzer, Contributing Editors
Terry Eastland, Publisher David H. Bass, Deputy Publisher
Nicholas H.B. Swezey, Advertising & Marketing Manager John L. Mackall, Advertising Sales Manager Lauren Trotta Husted, Circulation Director
Carolyn Wimmer, Executive Assistant Tina Winston, Finance Director Catherine Titus, Publicity Director
Taybor Cook, Angel Jones, Staff Assistants
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The Nation’s Field of Dreams
It seems the Nationwon’t let the facts The Nationwas quick to “fix” this on more. They don’t know Texas; they
interfere with a Bush-bashing oppor- their website. By late Friday, they had don’t know baseball. The only ERA
tunity. The Wall Street Journalnoted in come up with this solution: “When they’ve heard of is probably the Equal
its “Best of the Web” column Friday George W. Bush co-owned the Texas Rights Amendment. So to prevent fur-
that a Matt Bivens story in the Nation, Rangers and construction began on a ther embarrassment, we are happy to
“The Enron Box,” began with a howler: new stadium, Kenneth Lay agreed to clue them in: Texas has not one, but two
“When George W. Bush co-owned the spend $100 million over thirty years for major league baseball teams, the
Houston Astros and construction began rights to name the park after Enron.” Rangers and the Astros. The Rangers
on a new stadium, Kenneth Lay agreed Problem is, the Texas Rangers play at play in the American League; the
to spend $100 million over thirty years The Ballpark in Arlington. Enron Field Astros in the National League.
for rights to name the park after Enron.” is where the Houston Astros play, more And what does Bush’s onetime own-
As the Journalnoted, “it was the Texas than 200 miles away. Strike Two. ership of the Rangers have to do with
Rangers, not the Astros, that Bush co- THE SCRAPBOOK is beginning to the Astros’ Enron Field? Absolutely
owned.” Strike One. think the Nation folks need to get out nothing. Strike Three. ♦
James Earl Who?
Miller shouldn’t feel too bad. The that King’s son, Dexter, has been over-
James Earl juxtaposition is a common seeing the marketing of MLK’s voice
When the city of Lauderhill, Fla., source of error. Two years ago, New and image, THE SCRAPBOOK has come
was trying to decide last Decem- York newscaster Sue Simmons made the up with a handy James Earl mnemonic.
ber who they’d get to speak at their mirror-image mistake, identifying James Earl Jones is the guy who stars in
annual Martin Luther King Jr. Day cel- James Earl Jones, the voice of the Lion Verizon commercials. James Earl Ray is
ebration, they elected not to go with King’s Mufasa, as King’s assassin. And the murderer of the man whose voice is
Denzel Washington or Bill Cosby, on Chicago mayor Richard M. Daley was used (along with those of Kermit the
account of their being too expensive. once heard loudly grousing that his Frog and Homer Simpson) in Cingular
Maybe they should have spent the extra mayoral opponent was fooling voters by Wireless commercials.
cash. After settling on James Earl Jones, using voiceovers from James Earl Ray Former president James Earl Carter,
the voice of Darth Vader and CNN, in his campaign ads. who has not been spotted in any tele-
Lauderhill suffered a serious public Former West Virginia governor Cecil phone commercials, could not be
relations setback last week. The plaque Underwood couldn’t remember which reached for comment. ♦
they ordered to honor their speaker was James Earl was which, so when he met
unveiled and read: “Thank you James the actor, he split the difference, calling Beijing’s Olympic
Earl Ray for keeping the dream alive.” him “James Earl Ray Jones.” But the
Spirit
The plaque’s manufacturer in worst James Earl jumble may have
Georgetown, Texas, was naturally horri- come when assassin James Earl Ray
fied. Herbert Miller, vice president of died in 1998. During a Pittsburgh It’s been rather a while since THE
sales at Merit Industries, told the Asso- Pirates game, broadcaster Larry SCRAPBOOK last provided an update
ciated Press that not only had his com- Frattare broke into KDKA’s coverage to on China’s Olympic spirit. As close
pany donated to the NAACP for years, announce the death, waxing maudlin readers will remember, Secretary of
but he himself was Jewish, “which has about how “a lot of us in baseball have a State Colin Powell predicted last year
also been an oppressed minority.” Still, lot of feelings about Field of Dreams and that Beijing’s selection to host the 2008
he was mystified about the source of the the soliloquy [James Earl Jones] gave.” summer games meant China was in for
snafu, since the company is staffed by A few years ago, we thought that the “seven years of supervision by the inter-
young Hispanic women with limited King family itself might have gotten national community to make sure that
knowledge of English. their James Earls confused, when they the Olympic spirit is kept very much in
“Many of them don’t even know who said that Ray was not guilty of their mind.”
Martin Luther King was, much less patriarch’s murder, advancing various So we’ve been keeping a list of Chi-
James Earl Ray,” said Miller. conspiracy theories instead. But now nese domestic depredations that Foggy
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Scrapbook
nessman Li Guangqiang, charged last
spring with participation in an “evil
cult” for having shipped 30,000 copies
of the New Testament into Fujian
Province. Last week State Department
spokesman Richard Boucher said Presi-
dent Bush had taken a personal interest
in Li’s case and had requested U.S.
diplomats to look into the matter.
Good for the president. But we won-
der why he had to ask. ♦
Tattoo Discrimination?
George Washington fathered a coun-
try. Abraham Lincoln saved the
Union. Ronald Reagan won the Cold
War. And Rep. Lois Capps, in a bit of
21st-century statesmanship, has just
secured $50,000 in federal funds for tat-
too removal, to fight discrimination in
her Santa Barbara, Calif., congressional
district.
“People with visible, inappropriate
tattoos,” said Capps, “often encounter
negative attitudes, stereotyping and dis-
crimination resulting in unemploy-
ment, underemployment or the inabili-
ty to move forward in their careers.”
THESCRAPBOOKapplauds Capps for
her innovative lawmaking. We’ve often
wondered when a courageous politician
would ignore the polls, throw caution to
Bottom might want to attend to once two Hubei Falun Gong practitioners. the wind, and tackle head-on the crisis
things settle down in southwest Asia. On July 19 last year, Zhao Zhifei of anti-tattoo discrimination. No longer
And, boy, is that list long. To take just returned to China from New York. should any American lose a job simply
two examples. And on August 30, a Hubei man because he has “I Love Mother” etched
Last year in these pages (“NYPD named Peng Liang, the plaintiff in the on his biceps. Never again should proud
Red,” Aug. 13, 2001), Ellen Bork report- suit against Zhao, was arrested (Zhao tattoo-owners have to. . .
ed on her visit to a seminar for Chinese was suspected in the torture-murders of But wait a minute. Isn’t Capps blam-
police officials conducted by New York Peng’s mother and brother). Peng has ing the victim? Why should the proud
City’s John Jay College of Criminal Jus- not been seen since. For what it’s worth, tattoo bearer have to lose his body paint
tice. There men like Zhao Zhifei, Peng Liang has won his lawsuit. On simply because some bigoted employer
deputy police commissioner of Hubei December 23, U.S. District Court Judge is tattooist? If there’s a federal role here,
province, received advanced training in Denise Cote entered a default judgment shouldn’t it be to outlaw anti-tattoo dis-
things like “crowd control.” While at against Zhao Zhifei. crimination?
John Jay, Zhao was also served a $50 Also in the news, concern is growing Ummm, on second thought, forget
million federal civil suit charging him among international human rights we even mentioned it. We wouldn’t
with crimes against humanity in con- activists that China intends to impose a want to give members of Congress any
nection with the April 2001 murder of death penalty against Hong Kong busi- crazy ideas. ♦
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completed the two hours of paperwork
necessary to pay every last one of those
$3.50 quarterly tax bills. Occasional-
A O L M ly—such is the mind of the habitual
N PEN ETTER TO THE ARYLAND
law-abider—I’ve even waited until
OFFICE OF UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE after the due date, just to get you
thinking it was finally time to seize
and sell my house, only to dash your
Dear Sirs: approximately $3.50 to the unemploy- hopes by sending in the full $3.50, plus
Thank you for your recent “Notifi- ment insurance fund four times a year, a $35.00 penalty, plus interest. Top of
cation of Assessment and Pending your office, should I ever fire the the world, Ma!
Civil Action” wherein I am informed cleaning lady, will step in and replace At least, that always used to be my
that unless I make good a $3.53 tax the wages she’s lost. And since, as the attitude. But lately—I don’t know,
debt by January 25, the State of Mary- document you’ve sent me points out, maybe I’m getting old—the thrill is
land will send “the sheriff” to seize I’m currently paying this woman an gone. So let’s talk turkey, shall we?
my house and sell it “at [my] annual salary of $133,333.20 for six Says here in your Notification that I
expense.” That seems a reasonable hours of work each week, the stakes am delinquent with my unemploy-
plan to me, though I must say I won- are obviously very high: You need all ment-fund contribution for the third
der about the January 25 deadline, the $3.50 contributions you can get. quarter of last year. Once upon a time
which is almost a week away. Shouldn’t I would have thought it relevant to
you come seize and sell my house mention that the check I sent you for
immediately, while you’re still confi- that quarter actually cleared my bank
dent of its location? I mean, by Janu- some time ago. But such are the petty
ary 25 a man could easily box up a concerns of yesterday, and for now I
house like mine, truck it to Baltimore, am concentrating on the deeper truth
and reassemble it right in your office. suggested by your otherwise laughable
Where, entre nous, nobody can ever complaint. To wit: Any man, like me,
find anything. My advice: Contact the who pays his Sunday-afternoon
sheriff today. housekeeper $133,333.20 a year
Fact is, you probably should have belongs in a lunatic asylum, not left
contacted him a long time ago. Several free to roam the streets of Bethesda.
years back, I conducted a major phone Informal research I’ve conducted in
and letter campaign to alert the State the neighborhood confirms this
of Maryland that there was this nice hunch. Hundreds of families around
lady who’d begun helping us clean the here have cleaning ladies like ours.
house, and here was her name and gi But nobody else pays even a fraction
Gy
Social Security number, and this was n what we do. Also, I’ve noticed that
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how much money we were giving her, arr whenever I bring up the Maryland
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and would you please tell me what tax- Unemployment Insurance Fund, peo-
es I’m supposed to pay, and so on. Boy, Better yet, you need to keep this tax ple invariably get all nervous and
were you guys nice about this. First a secret, even as I’m begging you to change the subject, as if I’d exposed
you let months and months go by, tell me about it, thereby guaranteeing myself or something.
totally ignoring the matter. Then, that I will fail to pay, thereby giving Clearly I am a danger to the com-
after this grace period had ended, you the sheriff cause to seize and sell my munity. You’d best send the sheriff,
were kind enough to send me a per- house. That way, the lady who helps pronto.
sonalized form letter explaining that, clean said house won’t have to work Incidentally, will he be seizing the
because months and months had gone there without an unemployment safe- house and its contents, or just the
by during which I’d never once made ty net—because there won’t be a house? I’d really like to keep the
a contribution to the “Maryland “there” for her to work in the first piano, for example. And speaking of
Unemployment Insurance Fund,” the place. Best of all, because I won’t have the piano, would now be a good time
sheriff would soon be coming to seize “fired” her, your office won’t have to to ask you about unemployment
and sell my house. pay her a dime, am I right? insurance for the music teacher who
State law requires that a persuasive As I say, this seems a reasonable comes over on Saturdays? Or would
rationale for this program be kept per- plan to me. You should have carried you prefer to wait until we find a new
manently on file in your office, where through on it when you first had a place to live? Please advise.
. . . well, we’ve been over that chance. Instead, you let me slide. And Sincerely,
already, haven’t we? So I can only we both know I’ve been taking shame-
guess, but I figure it this way: If I pay less advantage of you ever since. I’ve DAVIDTELL
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A TWO-FRONT WAR suit places an officer at risk of financial ted by whites. How many times has a
ruin. The volume of this litigation has white person been pulled over for not sig-
ASKED A FAIRLY general question— increased dramatically in recent years. naling 100 feet before his turn? I know of
whether nationality, etc., should be CHARLESCARLSON several individuals of minority descent
employed as criteria in assessing suspect- Editor, Local Government Law Weekly who have had just that problem.
ed terrorists—some so-called experts Hinsdale, IL Mac Donald writes that it would be
gave Heather Mac Donald a glib “no” nice to hear a call for full cooperation
(“The War on the Police,” Dec. 31/Jan. 7). IN“THEWARONTHEPOLICE,” Heather with the terrorist investigation “as the
One wonders if a slightly different ques- Mac Donald argues that racial profiling patriotic duty of every Muslim-
tion, for example whether such criteria does not exist because certain minority American.” Why Muslims specifically?
should be employed in order to avert an groups commit crimes at higher rates. Shouldn’t this be the duty of all
impending attack in the expert’s own While she provides an excellent cri- Americans? The government inter-
neighborhood, would have elicited a dif- tique of why, based on numerous statis- viewed more than 1,000 Americans fol-
ferent response. One lesson of September tics, there are higher crime rates among lowing the tragedies of September 11
11 is that blind idealism is not the way to certain minority groups, this overlooks simply because they were of Arab
respond to real evil, and only irresponsi- an important aspect of the racial profiling descent. When Timothy McVeigh, who
ble fools failed to learn that. debate. The true dilemma involves not was just as much a terrorist as any of
D. MIDALIA the number and proportion of stops or Osama bin Laden’s henchmen, killed
Sydney, Australia hundreds in Oklahoma City, there was no
similar call to interview white males of a
EVEN GRANTING that Heather Mac certain age group. Such a request would
Donald is correct on all the points have been absurd. The same is true here.
she makes, I remain unconvinced that we The average Muslim or Arab American is
should be overly trusting of the police. It no more a terrorist than is the average
seems that an underlying assumption in white male.
Mac Donald’s work is that the police are To put it briefly, using race as a factor,
a social authority about which we need such as in questioning Arab graduates of
not be vigilant. This is a dangerous flight schools asking to learn how to fly
assumption. jumbo jets, is one thing. Questioning
My experiences with the police have every Arab or Muslim who entered this
been frightening precisely because the country after a certain date is quite
police are a very powerful authority. One another.
of the things that makes America great Indeed, the arrest of certain individu-
and which was a high priority for our als because of suspicious activity, regard-
Founding Fathers is limitations on the less of such an action’s effect on the sta-
police. Much of the Bill of Rights con- tistics, is not only just, but also necessary
cerns police control, and appropriately and proper. The debate should be over
so. Abuse of police power is the first the arrest and mistreatment of individu-
symptom of despotism. als simply because of their race and noth-
So, wring our hands as we might that ing else. If Mac Donald would like to
the police are too hampered to keep us arrests, but the reasoning behind them. If argue that this, too, is justified, I would
safe, we should be cautious about giving a minority is stopped or arrested because encourage such valuable discussion.
them too much freedom. The tradeoff of genuinely suspicious behavior, there is It is Mac Donald’s categorical dis-
between freedom and security is not a not a problem. The trouble arises when missal of a valid debate that I oppose.
new dilemma. America has long opted for that same person is arrested simply ADAMNELSON
freedom at the cost of being less secure. because of his race. “The anti-profiling Fairview Park, OH
Mac Donald says nothing that should juggernaut,” in my opinion, is based on
change that formula. this idea that an entire ethnic group is to IFTHERETRULYISa war on the police,
MATTBURR be punished for the sins of a few. then it is one they have brought upon
Dallas, TX As someone who has studied allega- themselves. Racial profiling is a trivial
tions of racial profiling in Cincinnati, I matter compared to the endemic corrup-
HEATHER MAC DONALD is right on have heard innumerable allegations of tion and incompetence of law enforce-
the money, but even more damag- the “bad” kind of racial profiling: ment. It can be argued that the
ing to police morale than adverse public- African-American drivers pulled over for September 11 disaster would never have
ity related to racial profiling are pressures driving expensive cars, or for being in happened had the FBI and U.S. intelli-
from the federal courts. Adverse media predominantly white neighborhoods gence services done their jobs. And what
coverage can perhaps be shrugged off, but after dark, and Hispanics pulled over for of Robert Hanssen? This FBI agent did
being a defendant in a Civil Rights Act crimes that are overlooked when commit- more damage to U.S. security than all the
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apologists. It needs a thorough house as was the case in some of his railroad Bioethics Advisory Commission recom-
cleaning, from the local precinct to the book “contacts,” he will catch hell. And mended legislation to authorize federal
highest levels of the federal bureaucracy. neither he nor his publisher will care. funding for both the derivation of embry-
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even smaller quarterly called folio.In the strange; it’s as if Ambrose did not do his Professor of Law and Medical Ethics
May 2001 issue of folio I published a research. University of Wisconsin Law School
glowing review of Ambrose’s new book This short statement reveals Am- Bioethics Advisory Commission, 1996-2001
Nothing Like It in the World, because I brose’s lack of knowledge. If he knew Madison, WI
enjoyed it so much. I marveled at his something about McGovern’s career in
research skills. the military, then he should have known
Well, I was severely chastised by legit- the correct name of the branch he was in. BLACK HAWK RISING
imate railroad historians, who shocked WILLIAMH. LINK
me into the realization that I should not Northridge, CA AFTER WHAT SOMALI BANDITS did to
be reviewing nonfiction books on sub- U.S. troops during the famine relief
jects about which I had no knowledge. FRED BARNES’S reporting the plagia- efforts in 1993, it’s time to go back in
My respect for Ambrose fell more than a rism by Stephen Ambrose and his there and clean that country up once and
few notches. subsequent tribute to historian Thomas for all (“Black Hawks Back to Somalia?”
Then the military historians got on Childers show just how ridiculous poli- Dec. 31/Jan. 7). As Christian Lowe
his case because of tragic errors in his tics, in writing about historical facts from reports, U.S. operatives have already been
D-Day.Ambrose was quoted in a page- another era, is. Evidently many World scouting for terrorist camps in Somalia, a
one article in the Wall Street Journalas War II veterans love Ambrose, and state that harbors much hatred against
saying that his critics could say “whatev- Childers seems embarrassed that this has the United States, therefore making it an
er the hell they wanted to say”—it didn’t happened to a noted historian who used appealing sanctuary for al Qaeda. It is
bother him. It would have been so easy his words and ideas without giving him necessary for us to return to Somalia and
for him to say that he would check out credit. destroy the system that would give an
the criticisms and correct any errors in To give Ambrose a pass on breaking organization like al Qaeda haven. I
subsequent editions. the most important of ethical codes in believe the U.S. Special Forces will have
Many years ago James Michener publishing just because he’s popular with the support necessary to finish the job
asked me to read a chapter of his forth- some veterans merely shows up-and- this time.
coming Centennial. I caught thirty-two coming writers that if you steal, it’s okay. SOPHIEROBERTS
errors. He accepted twenty-nine and DAVIDLEVIN Lehigh, OK
challenged three. I prevailed on two of Burlingame, CA
them. And Michener was writing a novel.
The fame of Stephen Ambrose can be • • •
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Correspondence Editor
reviewers know absolutely nothing about that “Clinton’s bioethics commission rec-
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Will I ever review another book by Simply use private money to pay for Washington, DC 20036.
Stephen Ambrose? Sure, if that book is destruction of the embryos and the You may also fax letters: [phone]
the story of the opening of the American extraction of their stem cells. After that, or e-mail: [email protected].
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