Comments on: NEWS & VIEWS ROUNDUP: May 13 http://warincontext.org/2008/05/13/news-views-roundup-may-13/ ... with attention to the unseen Thu, 09 Feb 2012 01:44:20 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Phil Sheehan http://warincontext.org/2008/05/13/news-views-roundup-may-13/comment-page-1/#comment-2135 Phil Sheehan Tue, 13 May 2008 19:50:37 +0000 http://warincontext.org/?p=1082#comment-2135 Bacevich and Powers come to depressingly similar conclusions. Bacevich: "The prospect of permanent war now beckons." Powers: "Getting out of Iraq will require just as much resolution as it took to get in—and the same kind of resolution: a willingness to ignore the consequences." About the racist incidents -- It is hard for us to be, as a people, a great deal better than the worst of us. And among the worst of us remains a cohort ready to take out their frustrations on any available target. Those targets, of course, will be people outside the cohort, or outside its ostensible boundaries. Blacks, then, and women and foreigners and gays. Another Bacevich quote: "We must change America, not the world." Bacevich and Powers come to depressingly similar conclusions. Bacevich: “The prospect of permanent war now beckons.” Powers: “Getting out of Iraq will require just as much resolution as it took to get in—and the same kind of resolution: a willingness to ignore the consequences.”

About the racist incidents — It is hard for us to be, as a people, a great deal better than the worst of us. And among the worst of us remains a cohort ready to take out their frustrations on any available target. Those targets, of course, will be people outside the cohort, or outside its ostensible boundaries. Blacks, then, and women and foreigners and gays.

Another Bacevich quote: “We must change America, not the world.”

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