“I’m not sure how comfortable I am being mixed up with this message!”
Author: Chris Walton
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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.
“Contrary to popular opinion, the religion that this group espouses is Triumphalism, not Christianity. Theirs is a zealous form of nationalism, baptized with Christian language.”
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Away til next week.
In the meantime, check out Ship of Fools, the cheeky British religious Web site.
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Hawks and tough doves.
“The two camps are seeking to establish in Iraq very different precedents for how the world deals with new threats in the age of global terrorism.”
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Forceful opposition.
“The right way to oppose the war is to argue that the present system of containment and control is working and can be made to work better.”
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Those aren’t ugly Americans abroad.
Three cheers for Walter Kirn and his New York Times Magazine piece “The Anti-Anti-American.” And I laughed out loud at the photograph accompanying it — of two young American hicks in loud T-shirts in an Italian plaza, and then I laughed again, because that’s no Italian plaza. It’s The Venetian in Las Vegas!
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Another good UU blog.
Jone Lewis’s Hemsidan comes to us from one of the best Unitarian Universalist-Ethical Culture-religious humanist webheads around. She is the force behind Transcendentalists.com and is About.com’s Womens History guide. Highly recommended sites!
“The poets who have written the best poems about war seem to be the poets whose countries have experienced an invasion or vicious dictatorships.”
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Wieseltier vs. Menand.
Tillich’s “Protestant principle” protests against idols in the name of the “God beyond God”; Menand protests against commitment itself.