The message to EU powerhouses France and Germany is clear: we’ll join you, but that doesn’t mean we’ll follow you.”
Month: February 2003
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‘Liberalism lies dying.’
The British Labour Party is deeply divided over Iraq — and the feeling of insecurity threatens to obscure liberal successes.
A sociologist tells the writer that “with the involvement of religious groups, Americans can recognize antiwar activists as ‘a favorite aunt or Ned Flanders.’” Great.
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The Iraqi opposition in Iran.
Elizabeth Neuffer interviews Iraqis in exile in Iran who are planning to join the fight to topple Saddam Hussein.
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Iraqi-Americans on the war.
“Their opinions differed on various issues, but they agreed on one point: Hussein must go.”
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Outstanding commentary.
Dan Kennedy’s posts on the war deserve a wide readership among religious liberals, who too often gravitate to the left-most pole without asking hard questions of themselves or their fellow-travelers.
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How scared should we be?
When it comes to weapons of mass destruction, there’s a huge difference between chemical and biological weapons on the one hand and nuclear weapons on the other.
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What? No religion reporters?
The Boston Globe, which has printed so many thousands of words in the past year on the crisis in the Catholic Church, spells the pope’s name wrong.
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Confronting Professor Singer.
“To justify my hopes that Singer’s theoretical world — and its entirely logical extensions — won’t become real, I’ll invoke the muck and mess and undeniable reality of disabled lives well lived. That’s the best I can do.”
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The ‘Times’ wants a deadline.
“The Security Council doesn’t need to sit through more months of inconclusive reports. It needs full and immediate Iraqi disarmament. It needs to say so, backed by the threat of military force.”