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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Author: Chris Walton
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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.”
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Afghaniwhat?
“There was no money, not even a line item, for humanitarian or reconstruction funds for Afghanistan.”
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How not to make the case.
Doing the right thing for the wrong reasons may be the most dangerous course of all.
Plans for humanitarian relief when war starts in Iraq involve estimates of “anywhere from 600,000 to 1.5 million refugees and asylum seekers,” plus another million displaced people inside Iraq.
Bin Laden is using the crisis with Iraq to dramatize the conflict he wants Muslims to embrace; he’s doing a bit of rebranding.
Although it might seem that the government shouldn’t be telling the Vatican how to interpret a Christian doctrine, a debate about just war theory is exactly the sort of place where religion and politics should meet.
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Long-term damage.
“After all, what profiteth a man if he gain regime change in Iraq, and yet lose the whole world order in the process?”
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Anti-Semites against the war.
Remember, folks: the enemy of your enemy is not necessarily your friend.