Show r Wi PllMl is' i cS Saturday April 17 2004 A4 The Herald Journal CTTAl£l i004 Our view irOKT WOWW Gardeners’ market compromise ideal I was the perfect place For a gardeners' market The little gazebo sheltered a live local hand Huge trees provided shade from the July sun and protection from fall drizzles Children frolicked in the stony ' creek Roses blooming in the peace garden scented the air There was electricity water grass fof people and pavement for cars When Cache Valley Gardeners' Market officials announced last year that they would have to move the market from Garff Wayside due to complaints from a neighboring business Cache Valley collectively groaned Happily we can all relax Thanks to some creative negotiating music will once again emanate from the little gazebo kids will splash and a rainbow of locally grown vegetables and handmade crafts will tempt customers at this downtown oasis once more Gardeners’ market officials were able to assuage the concerns of the Maximum Style Tec School of Cosmetology which shares a parking lot with ’ the market by offering to hire a third-part- y parking authority to monitor the lot and make sure there is adequate parking for the beauty school during market Saturdays Meanwhile the gardeners’ market is urging its customers to earpool walk or ride bikes to the market — none of which presumably arc alien concepts to the sort of clientele who make an extra trip into town to buy organically grown vegetables and goat milk soap Hopefully keeping the market at Garff will be a winning proposition for the beauty school as well — why not get a new “do" to go with that antique beaded necklace you just picked up? This is the type of compromise the world needs more of Both sides listened to each other and hammered out a solution based on mutual respect Now that they’ve settled the gardeners’ market dilemma maybe the local negotiators can head to the Middle East and see what they can do there The professionals certainly aren’t getting anywhere : Media anti - Bush and it shows " By Diana Weat Newspaper Enterprise Association V ictor Davis Hanson author of several books about War's affect on civilization says it best in the current issue of City Journal I paraphrase: Thanks to Geoige W Bush the Taliban are gone So is Saddam Hussein Yasser Arafat is isolated restricted to the wretched confines of his Ramallah compound American troops no longer stake their lives guarding the terror kingdom of Saudr Arabia and Europeans finally feel a righteous American heat over their cold accountings of' and their largesse to Islamic terror organizations Thanks also to Bush Islamofascist “charities" have been shuttered in this country Al Qaeda is in splinters around the world desperately seekn In one of the ‘ ' ing a new great diplomatic coups of our time Pakistan has been turned as Hanson de facto foe to a scruput it from tinized neutral" Just this week India’s prime minister Atal Behari Vajpayee publicly credited the US-le- d war in Iraq with pushing nuclear rivals India and Pakistan to set about resolving their dispute over Kashmir Bush has further pressured Libya ' Iran and Pakistan to come dean on nuclear cheating and where the Middle East once feared Iraq's military the president has had reason lately to ' lament its inefTeetualness Then there's always the fact that he has “so far avoided another September' — and promises that he is not nearly done yet” What next? Since he’s on a roll the maybe Bush could - Your view Providence acted soberly on alcohol To the editor: he lost top frequently when we find ourselves as part of a powerful majority Allow ing those that wish to have a beer or glass of wine with their meal After reading Keith Watkins' letter does not detract from the practice of regarding the Providence City Coun- -' Mr Watkins' religion or undermined til allowing the sale of wine and beer his moral principles As Thomas Jef-(not hard liquor) in restaurants I ferson stated “whether my neighbor fai led to hear the rumble of the prebelieves in no god' or 20 gods has no viously deceased rolling over in their effect on me" I have in mind a man graves I thought it was a sigh of that considers himself an atheist He relief marking the release of some is: however tine of the moM moral tension between the majority mem- individuals 1 have ever had contact ' hers of the church and the with by any standards her residents and perhaps some of ' I am also troubled by thesuggcs- ' the less active members: lion that the four councilmen that The vote in question proceeded as voted in favor of the liquor license " every other action that has been con- -' are something less than stalwart sidcred by the City Council even' Their vote was a recognition of a ' during the years dial Keith served likewise noble minority that simply Keith not was suggestPresumably wish to have the right to consume a ing that matters placed before the of wine with iheir meal Or glass ciy that some might consider to vio-- " maybe it was an answer to the recent late tenets of the majority or any roli- call by President Hinckley that we all gion should be given special be'a little more tolerant of those attention around uslhat come from other In this great Mate most bf our " walks of life elected officials arc members (if the Brad H Bcarnson prominent faith Unfortunately Uk many of them and Uni many of those Providence Ih4 place them In office expect their ' actions (o'be lock step with the' church doctrine or principles This attitude fails to recognie the' duty of elected officials to fairly respond to To the editor: the: reasonable needs and wishes of The Hindu When Emperor Constaritjne : all of the citizenry w hether dr not Chennai! India the a became tenets Christian of preChristianity they adhere to the became the state religion you dominant religion Toaci otherwise remember As thousands of is tp'suggest that m this democracy a in and can docked into the church it he Iraqis have risen en masse community any majority wasn't long before they had a domi- should suppress the legitimate needs against the ncocolonial occupation of and wants of its minority citizens nating influence Most of his trip their country by the United States ' officials had heeji ' No majority has the right to suppress and its'smattering of allies WashingBecause the Roman government was or oppress a minority You would ton deceives itself and seeks to think that as the descendants of the getting shakyConslantine consulted deceive the world when it claims that with his aides and with the church mormons that first settled this state the forces of the occupation are deal- officials in Rome: “What shall we we would have learned that lessorf in mg only with small groups bf mis- v Iljiniiis arid Missouri back in thp crearits who are determined to thwart See VIEW on AlO 1840s However that lesson seems to anti-Semitis- m state-have- fa non-mcn- i- ’ 1 1 : White House ipedia There niay be no WMD stockpiled by the Washington press corps but that doesn't mean they aren't a threat to peace and freedom Having abandoned the pursuit of fact and meaning to chase down a kind of therapeutic humiliation — therapeutic for them humiliation for the president — the White House media with a couple of notable exceptions revealed in this week's presidential press conference a particularly disturbing taste for presidential blood and a patent antipathy for his accomplishments This hloodlust now borders on icky ! pre-em- pt in Iraq and the security of the United States into the larger context of the war on Islamic terrorism the media tended to their gotcha questions in hopes that they could lay bare not illuminating fact or meaning — their sorry performance elicited no new information — but rather the diminishing fault lines of doubt and cheap emotion Was the president sorry? ' Would he apologize? Would the media get their trophy — one equally prized by John Kerry and Al Jazeera? No Bush described his anger his sadness arid his sickness over 911 obsession but reminded the pack that “the per--' ' “Do you feel a sense of personal son responsible for the attacks was Osama bin Laden” He emphasized responsibility for September llth?” asked The New York Times’ Eliza- the serious call to action he strongly beth Bumiiler “You never admit a believes we must heed Not the media they want that mistake" said NBC's David Gregobut apology preferably ry “Is that a fair criticism?' Were there “any errors bf judgment that anything to weaken his moral and political stature Which explains you made" regarding “those topics and their lack of journalistic fervor when 11)1 (Iraq Sept brought up?" it came to extractingan apology Again and again the White House media went g from Bill Clinton for anything ever ' “Two weeks ago" said CBS’s John from the multiple lies (sex with Roberts "a former counterterrorism “that” woman) to the multiple smears (Billy Dale Kathleen Willey official at the NSC Richard Clarke offered an unequivocal apology to Juanita Broaddrick) from the 1993 the American people for failing them rout in Somalia in which 18 marines lost their lives in prior to 91 ”( Never mind that the ' d Al battle rebels with the Clarke rest grandstanding spent of his testimony attesting to his own to the 2000 attack on the USS Cole — and every infamous act in 7 grossly underappreciated infallibilibetween The media elite wanted ty) “Do you believe the American similar him to win! Even now this bunch a deserve people apology from you and would you bd prewon't train their revto give them one?” Moving on on Clinton despite the post-91- 1 pared ' Time’s John Dicker- -' from Sept elations of his administration's secu- son wondered “After 91 1 what rity failings or even the multiple ' chances Clinton would your biggest mistake be?" personally passed NPR’s Don Gonyea took a different up to kill or capture Osama bin tack: “I guess I’d like to know if you Laden feel in any way that you've failed as:' ' But they'll keep George Bush in a communicator" their crosshair$ They' don't want him mistakes to win — and it shows and Apologies feelings failings:! Was this sweeps week on Diana West a columnist for The WashOprah or the White House ar war? ' While Bush quite effectively and ' ington Times widely known for her conservative views She can be coneven inspirationally set the mission " - teary-moi- st apology-huntin- 7 1 Qaeda-traine- 1 1 tacted via dianawwverizonnet: International view Sunday Sabbath US refuses to acknowledge Iraqi reality has pagan roots the democratic aspirations of an Iraqi majorityIn v whenever able to do so ' foreign troops depart have expressed their opposition to the Occupation: Editorial policy The Opinion page is intended to acquaint : readers with a vanety o( viewpoints on matter? of public importance and provide members of Itw community with a fonimfortheirviisws Personal columns cartoons and letters from readers reflect the optnnns af their writers and creators Editorials under the heading Our" Vew” represent the vws of the Herald Journal editorial board Members of the editorial board: s INTERESTING t mm V° NjbQ EEM1Nc3K? 1 K i lept-unnp- gd to WkJU4unU:SUJrtJff Even those who welcomed the ouster' of the regime of Saddam Hussein arid those whofear that conditions in the country wiil become chaotic if Herald Journal 7 oHmTfc0W 4PNUKT reali- - " ty that an overwhelmingly Jaige proportion rtf the Iraqi people thize with the resistance arid provide-assistanc- ' UETWN-- : DARRELL EHRUCKcily editor CINDY YURTHffeatures editor J-' :! 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