Re: John Kerry in 1997

[Nick Arnett]

To me, the oversimplification of arguments along the lines of "Saddam 
was a brutal dictator, therefore the war was just," is another example 
of the sort of polemics that passes for argument in our culture.  As if 
war's only effect on the world is to determine whether or not the stated 
desired outcome would come to pass!

Surely the war planners at least considered what sort of effect this 
would have on the rest of the world's attitudes toward us.  Yet the 
administration, much less its supporters, seems unwilling to give even 
lip service to that or any of the multitude of other reasons that argue 
against the war.

Did the American people say, "Gimme just *one* good reason to go to war 
in Iraq" when I wasn't listening?

Now I'm hearing Kerry's decisions reduced to one dimension, even though 
his war experience surely wrote on his heart the reality that one good 
reason is never sufficient basis for a serious decision.

Nick
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