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...picture of a Harvard undergraduate protesting the anticipated military response to the terrorist attack. This week’s New Republic refers to the Harvard Initiative for Peace and Justice as organizing “vigils and letter-writing campaigns against military action.” The comfortable moral absolutism that fuels such reactions is so absolutely out of touch with any possible policy option that it makes Harvard student opinion entirely irrelevant and to some extent laughable...
...Since Election Day, Lieberman has been the recount absolutist. The moral certainty that drove some of his Senate colleagues to distraction - when he voted his conscience instead of his party - has provided crucial ballast here. Al Gore, under pressure known to change his story, his message, his demeanor and his clothes, has resisted the weight of opinion in favor of getting it over rather than getting it correct. This has meant that Lieberman, considered a happy St. Bernard in 12 years in the Senate - "as moral, decent and honorable a man as I've known there," said Senator John McCain...
...planes: the masterminds who dreamed up the plot and who saw it through to catastrophic conclusion. The goal of the new war on terrorism is not only to arrest perps and break up plots but also to trace those lines of responsibility as far as they go, to prove moral responsibility for terrorist acts on the part of any world leaders who encourage them...
...from the moral equivalent of war to a real one in nine months. In this land of plenty, we tend to treat everyday problems like major crises. Until Tuesday, the measure of Bush rested on whether he or the Democrats would be the first to open up a lockbox that doesn't even exist. The bar for his success was keeping the looming recession shallow and short...
...solidarity among all Americans. We need to protect our country, to care for the victims and their families and actually identify our enemy.” We don’t need to use the events of last week as an excuse to bash men and smugly assert the moral superiority of one gender over the other...