“Just wars are also ugly wars. Fancy wars are also ugly wars.”
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Practicing the news.
“Watching the news, critically and constructively, is a practice.”
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Friedman vs. Sullivan.
Disagreeing about “unilateral.”
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Baghdad’s blogger.
Salam Pax is back.
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Keeping up.
How to follow the war — and the antiwar movement.
Another UU World contributor has a blog worth your attention.
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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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Those aren’t ugly Americans abroad.
Three cheers for Walter Kirn and his New York Times Magazine piece “The Anti-Anti-American.” And I laughed out loud at the photograph accompanying it — of two young American hicks in loud T-shirts in an Italian plaza, and then I laughed again, because that’s no Italian plaza. It’s The Venetian in Las Vegas!
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What? No religion reporters?
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.