Once the war begins, the movement that has tried to stop it is going to find itself deeply divided.
Author: Chris Walton
“For progressive women, in 2003, to fall back on the ideology of woman-as-peaceful-outsider rings as false as Phyllis Schlafly pretending to be a housewife.”
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The road not taken.
”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.”
“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.”