A sociologist tells the writer that “with the involvement of religious groups, Americans can recognize antiwar activists as ‘a favorite aunt or Ned Flanders.’” Great.
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The Iraqi opposition in Iran.
Elizabeth Neuffer interviews Iraqis in exile in Iran who are planning to join the fight to topple Saddam Hussein.
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Iraqi-Americans on the war.
“Their opinions differed on various issues, but they agreed on one point: Hussein must go.”
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Outstanding commentary.
Dan Kennedy’s posts on the war deserve a wide readership among religious liberals, who too often gravitate to the left-most pole without asking hard questions of themselves or their fellow-travelers.
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How scared should we be?
When it comes to weapons of mass destruction, there’s a huge difference between chemical and biological weapons on the one hand and nuclear weapons on the other.
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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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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.