”But it is not enough simply to say you oppose war. That statement brings with it a responsibility to say what the proper policy is or would be.”
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Month: March 2003
“Jesus became Bush’s life coach—a sort of divine Tony Robbins.”
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Emersonians against war.
”War is evil, therefore prevention of war must be good. The wars fought for human rights in our own time — in Bosnia and Kosovo — have not registered with Pariser’s generation.”
“To paraphrase Camus, I belong to the antiwar movement despite the antiwar movement.”
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Liberal blogs.
Here’s a handy guide.
“If it is recalled at all in future years, it will be as a Wizard of Oz moment where the curtain was pulled back and the all-powerful figure toward whom people have looked for guidance was revealed to be just another middle-aged man in a suit…”
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Boston white-out.
I’m watching the city grind to a halt from my perch at the top of Beacon Hill.
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The case for a different war.
Kenneth Pollack’s case for war “reads as much like an indictment of the Bush administration’s overeagerness to go to war as it does an endorsement of it.”
“I’m not sure how comfortable I am being mixed up with this message!”
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Liberal hawks cool down.
The odds were always long — but that’s because our party isn’t in power, doesn’t have a plan, and is embattled by silly and fractious demands farther left.