“Morally, politically, financially, containing Iraq is one of the costliest failures in the history of American foreign policy.”
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Going alone.
“The issue here isn’t that France opposes us. That doesn’t bother me particularly. The real point is that everyone opposes us. Everyone.”
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Military missions.
“The US government had grown increasingly dependent on its military to carry out its foreign affairs.”
Once the war begins, the movement that has tried to stop it is going to find itself deeply divided.
“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.”
“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…”