“My argument with the anti-war demonstrators hangs on the relative justice of two possible endings: an American victory or anything short of that, which Saddam could call a victory for himself.”
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Focus on the pictures.
“Just wars are also ugly wars. Fancy wars are also ugly wars.”
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Where are the conscientious objectors?
“Maybe we need another name for people with no particular objection to war itself, who refuse to take part in military actions they feel to be immoral.”
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Practicing the news.
“Watching the news, critically and constructively, is a practice.”
A “naive fool” who went to Baghdad as a human shield discovers (gasp!) that Iraqis fear and loathe Saddam Hussein.
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War of ideas.
Paul Berman writes that Sayyid Qutb’s “deepest quarrel was not with America’s failure to uphold its principles. His quarrel was with the principles.”
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Protest regress.
The slogan “No Blood for Oil” “brings people together, but it also delegitimizes the movement in the eyes of the larger public.”
Many Christian leaders have effectively embraced pacifism, even if their language still seems to hold open the possibility of a “just war.”
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Right war, wrong time.
Joseph Nye believes the aftermath of war can “recover some of the legitimacy after the fact that the administration squandered before the war” — if the U.S. handles it correctly.
“To connect the Prince of Peace with these kind of toys for war seems to be on the edge of obscene to me.”