Reader Response

December, 2004

Who's in Charge Here?Despite what Arthur Schlesinger Jr. says in his September essay, "Who Rules America?," George Bush did not make "the fatal turn to a preventive-war policy all by himself." According to polls at the time, more than 75 percent of Americans supported going to war with Iraq.Andrew Fox, Massillon, OhioI am pro-choice and pro-marijuana but voted for George W. despite your efforts to demonize him. Schlesinger took his shot by quoting Abe Lincoln: "Allow the...