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...ideological cyclotron of '60s campus radicalism. Last week an American flag was hanging from the balcony of his Greenwich Village apartment. Gitlin wonders now whether an effective response to terrorism may require the judicious use of force and whether the left's reflexive condemnation of U.S. military action is blind to the new realities. "I have a disposition against massive retaliation, but I think nations have a right of self-defense," he says. "In the '60s, 'Make love, not war' was an appropriate message. Today much more complex things are going...
...Shanghai's colonial past: the former French Concession, a great place for wandering along treelined avenues past graceful villas. Next, walk back toward Fuxing Park to pamper yourself at the Kang Ning Point Pressure Massage Center (597 Fuxing Zhong Road), where an hour with one of the expert blind masseurs will set you back only...
Most everyone at Harvard slaves and sweats over the social cause of their choice: “Ten dollars an hour!” “Color-blind love!” “Rape happens at Harvard!” Of course, arms flailing and spit flying, students often find themselves preaching to the choir. And this is as good as it will ever get for them; nowhere else will they enjoy as tolerant, as sensitive and as dogmatically liberal a community as the university...
...American people that he defends his country. But if the objectives of a military action in Afghanistan are destroying Osama bin Laden and wiping out terrorists' bases, no air operation will work. The bases are hidden in bunkers, tunnels and mountain caves. You can't hope for a blind direct hit when you don't know where your target is. Bombs and missiles, however smart, will only crush hills into dust, and should they fall on cities, kill a lot of innocent people. Nor will it work in terms of intimidation either: Afghans are not the people to be intimidated...
...neither of these things will absolve me from my utter failing as an American citizen. The primary duty of democratic citizens is to be cognizant and critical of their government’s policies and actions (critical not meaning unsupportive, but unwilling to accept on blind faith). I don’t have to know the exact battle plans, the sites of surprise attacks before they happen or the locations of secret missile bases. However, the argument that national security prevents my knowledge (and the public’s) of American military action in all cases is highly flawed...