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Friday, May 18, 2007 12:00 AM

Edwards' insensitive move

While one can oppose the war and still support the troops, the presidential candidate's call for antiwar protests on Memorial Day is a bad idea.
By Joe Conason

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  • Friday, May 18, 2007 09:14 AM

    Not so long ago

    it seemed that public figures — politicians in particular — were concerned with being politically correct, that is, displaying deference to the ideals of fairness and plurality. As this article seems to imply and as the most recent Republican presidential debate so clearly illustrated, in the American public sphere political correctness has given way to martial correctness and its requisite deference to militarism.

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