“I don't want to sound pompous, but I think it is important that when one makes arguments of consequence that he go and see what those consequences are. Having championed the war, I wanted to see the products of my own argument.” ThinkingWantImportantWarWantedSoundMy OwnProductsConsequenceArgumentPompous Author:Lawrence Kaplan
“The din of politicians speechifying about the war, the faux moral posturing of opinion-makers who claim to speak in the name of 'the troops,' everything that Iraq has come to represent in the American imagination - it all melts away in the 115-degree heat. What's left is the machinery of a war that, having been called into being by civilians, no longer bears a relation to anything they say.” WarNamesLeftSpeakImaginationMoralOpinionBearsPoliticianDegreesClaimsRelationIraqHeatMakersTroopsMachineryCiviliansFaux Author:Lawrence Kaplan
