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.”
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“I’m not sure how comfortable I am being mixed up with this message!”
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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.
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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.”
“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.
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Have liberals been duped?
“Having been played for fools, most liberal hawks will retreat to a deep skepticism of American power. They will end up on the decent, feckless left.”
Issues of Harper’s and The Nation both feature cover stories by Jonathan Schell.
The message to EU powerhouses France and Germany is clear: we’ll join you, but that doesn’t mean we’ll follow you.”