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...hard-liners--those who insist that you can't get rid of the threat from Saddam's weapons of mass destruction without getting rid of Saddam--just going to the U.N. has risks. Diplomatic negotiations, with their shuffled compromises and ambiguous texts, are not the favorite terrain of the moral-clarity crowd, who need no fresh justification to get rid of Saddam. A White House aide says sharply, "We haven't said anything about a new [Security Council] resolution." But in practice, both American and foreign diplomats are working on the assumption that now that debate has shifted...
Can’t we do better than that? It is one thing to have a moral or conscientious objection to war; it is quite another to think military action is fully warranted, but only as long as is does not interfere with any future plans one might happen to have. What does that say about the character of the student body? Harvard students sometimes claim to be and are often thought of as America’s future leaders. In times of crisis, however, leaders are supposed to step to the front, not cower in the rear...
Throughout this primary campaign, Reich has demonstrated his passionate, principled commitment to the under-privileged. As he told the American Student Assistance Conference on Jan. 27, “A society concerned about widening inequality—and its corrosive effects on democracy, social solidarity and the moral authority of a state or nation—would logically turn its attention to increasing the supply of people capable of doing the work that the new economy rewards.” His visionary plans to revitalize education in Massachusetts, coupled with his intelligent proposals on health care and many other issues?...
...It’s difficult for the government to sustain that sense of moral outrage that is typical of the war experience,” he says...
...Minister Gaetan Duval "isn't black. He is a brown-skinned, straight-haired man of forty." Though some of the numerous racial distinctions in this book might be described as old-fashioned, others are less ambiguous?at best patronizing, at worst suggesting quaint inadequacies in the author, if not moral faults...