looking back on that scumbag George Packer
[George Packer on the naivete of the antiwar movement, from the NYT
Mag, 3/9/03]
The notion that there is little safety in Iraq - that the Iraqi
people, while not welcoming the threat of bombs, might be realistic
enough to accept a war as their only hope of liberation from tyranny
- was unthinkable. The protesters saw themselves as defending Iraqis
from the terrible fate that the U.S. was preparing to inflict on
them. This assumption is based on moral innocence - on an inability
to imagine the horror in which Iraqis live, and a desire for all good
things to go together. War is evil, therefore prevention of war must
be good.