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Re: Complexity, Intellectuals and Iraq

janinsanfran — Sat, 09 Feb 2008 08:03:47 -0000

My quarrel with Packer's essay is pretty simple: for most Americans, the appropriate work is not to understand Iraq. Our job is to understand how our own political system became so broken that this war ever happened. Something is profoundly wrong in our society and system if a President can take the country to war for no reason that stands up to scrutiny. We have to fix it or the country we love is dead.

I say this as someone who was interested enough to visit Jordan and Syria in order to figure out what we could do to assist the human casualties of America's broken democracy. But that's not the most urgent need for most of us. Packer has forgotten that for most of us, the war is at home.

Re: Battleground Zero

janinsanfran — Sun, 24 Aug 2008 07:08:28 -0000

Please keep up these reports! I worked that area in the 2004 election and know lots of those places. We couldn't pull it out (for local Dems) but this time sounds promising.

Re: Battleground Zero

janinsanfran — Sun, 24 Aug 2008 07:08:28 -0000

Please keep up these reports! I worked that area in the 2004 election and know lots of those places. We couldn't pull it out (for local Dems) but this time sounds promising.