Monday, January 27, 2003

What are the alternatives to war? 

One faculty member is sending around requests for money on the campus listserv to place an ad in the local paper reading WE SAY NO TO WAR ON IRAQ
and
WAR IS NOT THE ANSWER

Their website is here. One wonders what their alternatives are? As pointed out on Punditwatch yesterday, David Brooks has the quote of the year so far:
You've got 100,000 people marching in the streets and they are, in effect, marching to preserve a fascist regime. I know that's not what they want. They want to prevent war, which is a legitimate thing to do. But they are never asked why are you preserving a fascist regime, why don't you want the tide of democracy, which is to spread through Latin America and Central America, to spread to the Arab part of the world - that's the idealistic case the Bush administration has made a little but they haven't made strongly enough.

I just want somebody to say to those people and I wanted to go down there and say here's a regime that has professional rape teams in their military where they rape women and send the videotapes to the fathers. Here's a regime that imprisons mothers and babies in the next cell and forces them to watch their babies starve to death. You know, what is the defense? Maybe we don't want to take out this regime, but is that the moral high ground? What is your defense for preserving that regime?

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