The military's controversial plan to embed reporters within the ranks of our forces during Operation Iraqi Freedom, or the "hot war," provided plenty of fodder for late-night television jokes, but Zinsmeister has lived to tell us that it's the real deal. In his first book, Boots on the Ground (St. Martin's Press, 2003), which encompasses a month in the desert beginning at the inception of the war on March 20, 2003, Zinsmeister wrote, "The embedding effort...is like nothing I've seen before." He says the effort is beneficial in two ways: by forcing journalists to see things from a soldier's viewpoint and by providing immediate--live, in some cases--news coverage. Zinsmeister suggests that democracy bred morality into our troops and our citizens, a democracy he hopes can spread into the M...
WASHINGTON, June 15 /U.S. Newswire/ -- Karl Zinsmeister, President Bush's newly appointed chief Domestic Policy Advisor gave his last major national television interview prior to his White House appointment on THINK TANK with Ben Wattenberg. Taped prior to Zinsmeister's May 24, 2006 appointment, this candid discussion covered a broad range of issues including the future of Social Security, welfare reform, education, sexual behavior and much more. As the editor-in-chief of The American Enterprise magazine since 1994, Zinsmeister had a visible role as a social critic and right-of-center thinker. At the heart of the interview is the question of what government's responsibility should be in the shaping of the choices individuals make in American society.
Being a pessimist on Iraq is easy, even fashionable, given that the headlines out of the Middle East tend to focus on bombings, casualties, political divisions and setbacks of various kinds. Those are legitimate stories, no doubt, that need telling. But they tend to paint a decidedly onesided and dark portrait of what's going on there. That's why we recommend an article appearing in the most recent edition of The American Enterprise, the monthly magazine of the American Enterprise Institute. In "Facts vs. Fiction: A Report from the Front," editor in chief Karl Zinsmeister gives a slightly more upbeat assessment of the situation, based on his fourth boots-on- the-ground trip to Iraq.
The discrepancy that got the most play was in a quote about [Karl Zinsmeister]'s distaste for the Washington elite, among whom he had lived for a time working as an aide for now-deceased Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan (D-N.Y.). The original quote began, "People in Washington are morally repugnant, cheating, shifty human beings." Zinsmeister rewrote it to say, "I learned in Washington that there is an 'overclass' in this country stocked with cheating, shifty human beings that's just as morally repugnant as our 'underclass.' Zinsmeister changed the attribution of another quote from himself to an unidentified U.S. soldier and excised portions of another quote, including a statement questioning [George Bush]'s handling of the Iraq war. Another change was made to a quote about the number who ...
Reports of the president's lame duckness might have been exaggerated. By choosing first Tony Snow as spokesman and now Karl Zinsmeister as domestic policy adviser, President George W. Bush has demonstrated that he is far from lame and might even be frisky. Snow is a familiar public figure who brings a welcome dose of humor and easy confidence to the job. Zinsmeister will be less visible, but his impact is potentially huge.
With the death toll for American forces in Operation Iraqi Freedom now surpassing the losses accrued before President George W. Bush declared the conflict over, an I-was-there account of the heroics of U.S. troops seems almost premature. Karl Zinsmeister's Boots on the Ground: A Month with the 82nd Airborne in the Battle for Iraq (Truman Talley/St. Martin's Press, New York City; 213 pages; $24.95/hardcover) was published in September 2003, when there was more optimism that the death toll would stop climbing. While the brief and inconclusive voyeuristic journey behind the front lines is exciting and revealing at times, Zinsmeister taints those moments with bitter snarling at his ideological enemies. While he makes it perfectly clear that he remains deeply moved by his experience in Iraq,...
I take issue with an assertion in "Cold realities in hot zone" (Commentary, Saturday) by Karl Zinsmeister. Mr Zinsmeister states, " ...demoralization can work both ways, and today it is Iraq's insurgents who face physical and psychological defeat ... Al Qaeda itself is now in shambles.
If New York's politicians truly begin embracing the values of democracy, [Mark Bitz] says, Albany's future legislation will inevitably be win-win for everyone. "That's the genius of democracy," he continues. "Democracy, when it's really working, gives better solutions. Feedback is being put into the mix from everybody. That's not the case in New York today. Until our democratic system is fixed, at best we'll get inferior solutions or no solutions at all. And that's what we've been getting for the last 30 years. All my students were members of Solidarity," says Bitz. "They were researchers from age 24 to 60. They would go to their solidarity meetings while I would go to the U.S. Embassy and read the Western press. Then we'd get together to talk and share ideas. Actually, it was kind of...
... earlier when he became best friends with Karl Zinsmeister, when they were sophomores at Baker Hi...
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