He's W., not Webster.(Corespondence)(Letter to the Editor)

PAUL STARR'S OTHERWISE perceptive critique of the president's speech on freedom and democracy in the Middle East ["The President's New Crusade," December 2003] makes the error of assuming that George W. Bush uses those words the way that most of us do. But Bush's history shows that he employs words in ways that will benefit him, and feels little if any limitation from dictionary definitions.

As Starr notes, democratic governments in Arab countries would probably be anti-American. Would the ...

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