March 19, 2013
F' THE SHI'A:
Eve of Destruction : What it was like to oppose the Iraq War in 2003 (JOHN B. JUDIS, 3/19/13, New Republic)
In the six months before the American invasion of Iraq in March 2003 and the six weeks after the invasion (culminating in George W. Bush's "Mission Accomplished" speech), I often compared my situation in Washington to that of Jeannette Rankin, the Montana congresswoman and pacifist who voted against entry into both World War I and II. Not that I would have voted against declaring war in 1941; the comparison was to her isolation, not with her isolationism.
But, of course, the point is the comparison to her isolationism. There's always someone in America who thinks that the freedom of others--negroes, Jews, Muslims, etc.--is none of our business. They are always on the wrong side of history.
Posted by Orrin Judd at March 19, 2013 5:07 PM
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