Letters to the Editor
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Good Wars Die Young
You can never go wrong if you oppose all wars, all the time - even the "good" wars. It's an affront to decency and rationality to place the terms "good" and "war" in the same sentence - and actually mean it. The final tally of any war in history will always show far more on the debit than the credit side. War, as has been said repeatedly, is the ultimate confession of impotence to deal with the human condition - so what does that tell you about a man who years to be remembered as A War President? But, speaking of censorship, there is a way to bring the Iraq war to a close: by attacking the base on which it rests (you know, that moment that "changed everything"). But it can't be attacked because it's become a sacred icon; and anyone who dares attack it becomes a blasphemer. Frankly, I don't give a damn who or what was behind it. If enough people start entertaining doubts, the vast majority of Americans who claim to oppose the war...will actually mean what they say for once.