A “naive fool” who went to Baghdad as a human shield discovers (gasp!) that Iraqis fear and loathe Saddam Hussein.
Author: Chris Walton
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War of ideas.
Paul Berman writes that Sayyid Qutb’s “deepest quarrel was not with America’s failure to uphold its principles. His quarrel was with the principles.”
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Protest regress.
The slogan “No Blood for Oil” “brings people together, but it also delegitimizes the movement in the eyes of the larger public.”
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Liberalism defined.
Liberalism as an ideology, a philosophy, and an attitude toward political reality.
Many Christian leaders have effectively embraced pacifism, even if their language still seems to hold open the possibility of a “just war.”
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Friedman vs. Sullivan.
Disagreeing about “unilateral.”
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Right war, wrong time.
Joseph Nye believes the aftermath of war can “recover some of the legitimacy after the fact that the administration squandered before the war” — if the U.S. handles it correctly.
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Baghdad’s blogger.
Salam Pax is back.
“To connect the Prince of Peace with these kind of toys for war seems to be on the edge of obscene to me.”
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Nation-building.
“Let it be known that America will lead the reconstruction of Iraq, and don’t be afraid to call it nation-building.”