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April 18th, 2007 issue

No claim to fame

“Czech beer is widely renowned as being among the world’s best”? I know Czechs thoroughly believe this (“Poor barley harvests threaten beer quality,” News, April 11–17) and that travel guides mindlessly repeat such a factoid. But can you show me a single source to support such a claim? Czech beer is almost never mentioned by experts as being even among the best! Czech beers rarely, if ever, place among even the top 50 in competition.
Lars Hansen
Copenhagen
Dousing Klaus
“Klaus relies on vague populist statements and on the creation of false external threats to increase his own stature.” (“President & future,” Opinion, April 11–17)
Perhaps he spent too much time watching the antics of the village idiot presently occupying the White House.
Martin Andrews
London
While the failings of [former President] Václav Havel may have been many, few can fault him for taking the broader interests of his country and of humanity into account, or respecting the right of his countrymen to have a voice in their country’s destiny. Klaus’ failings relate his narrower view of humanity and reluctance to fully allow the average person a voice. Politicians should inspire their citizenry toward their better instincts. In a sense, Klaus is probably no worse than most of the political leaders on the world stage.
Joel Monkarsh
San Leandro, California, U.S.A.
RFE/RL’s new man
It’s a pity that your reporter didn’t trouble to find out who this person was (“RFE/RL head is willing to fight,” News, April 11–17) before running this insipid interview. Perhaps if she had done so she would have been able to ask a few searching questions about his past.
Gedmin was a founding member of the Project for a New American Century, the extreme right-wing group that notoriously called for a “New Pearl Harbor” to justify carving up the Middle East. On 9/11 we all saw what they meant by this, and, since then, thousands of people throughout the Muslim world have been suffering the consequences.
In Die Welt Jan. 10 he had the bare-faced cheek to repeat Dick Cheney’s lie that Saddam Hussein was in some bizarre way connected with 9/11. Even Bush has since retracted this lie completely.
Gedmin is a man who would swear that black is white, so long as this meant that he was supporting his party. He should have come here 30 years ago, not to a democratic Czech Republic.
Margo Andover
Prague


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