Re: [PEN-L] Michael Ignatieff: I was wrong to support the war in Iraq

2007-08-07 Thread ken hanly
Yeah that seems right. Also, he never mentions the illegality of the war in the first place. He talks as if it is OK to invade because Saddam H. was a bad guy. Of course he applauds the intervention in Kosovo that resulted in the end in the ethnic cleansing of Serbs except for a few isolated

[PEN-L] Michael Ignatieff: I was wrong to support the war in Iraq

2007-08-05 Thread Louis Proyect
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/05/magazine/05iraq-t.html

Re: [PEN-L] Michael Ignatieff: I was wrong to support the war in Iraq

2007-08-05 Thread Jim Devine
On Louis Proyect wrote: http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/05/magazine/05iraq-t.html my, he does go on and on, doesn't he? among other things, he writes: The decision facing the United States over Iraq is paradigmatic of political judgment at its most difficult. Staying and leaving each have huge