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...talk shows and in political columns. She is probably telling a simple truth: that given the same intelligence and circumstances, she would vote for war again. We can criticize her for not recognizing that the intelligence was dubious and for voting for war against a state that did not aggress against us. Or we can critique the Bush Administration for cooking the intelligence. Either way, we are not served by the focus on whether she utters the word mistake. If the media coverage of the 2008 election has already been reduced to this, I fear for what it will look...
...that the arguments in its support do not even begin to answer the principled arguments of its opponents. A free, liberal society is supposed to adhere to the principle that people should be free to do as they please with their own lives as long as they don't aggress against others. One often finds the same people who are so earnestly trying to ban handguns using this same principle legitimately to justify gay rights or legalization of marijuana...
...been widely assumed on the basis of psychoanalytic theory and other hydraulic energy models of personality that children's vicarious participation in film-mediated aggression or the direct expression of aggressive behavior will serve to discharge "pentup energies" and effects. Guided by this catharsis hypothesis, many parents, educators, and mental health workers encourage hyperaggressive children to participate in aggressive recreational actavities, to view highly aggressive televised programs, and to aggress in psychotherapeutic play-rooms and other permissive settings...
...will to use it, so that the Communist use of force would obviously be unprofitable to them. I emphasize both the power and the will, for one without the other is useless. Also, that will must be sufficiently manifest that potential aggressors will calculate that they could not aggress without disaster to themselves...
...military bias." Too many U.S. officials have fallen into the habit of measuring progress (or security) exclusively by the number of nuclear explosions, the number of divisions mobilized. The result is that the U.S. is stuck with a warlike vocabulary (e.g., "massive retaliation"), while the Communists, who continue to aggress, have stolen the words of peace (e.g., "coexistence...