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...there anything unusual about her spirit-of-the-age defense, wherein she insists that her deeds should be seen in the context of a time when many others -- she cites, for example, Daniel Ellsberg, leaker of the Pentagon papers -- were breaking the law. There is a certain moral gap between unauthorized leaking and armed robbery that this defense does not bridge...
...Captain Queeg, the Green Beret conspirators, beginning with Colonel Rheault, seem indisputably guilty, however tragic the circumstances. But by the time Stein is finished, in Kafkaesque fashion no assumptions remain unchallenged. War, Stein implies, defies moral judgment, though judgments must be drawn. One such judgment was drawn by Daniel Ellsberg: the Green Beret case served to harden his determination to publish the Pentagon papers. The rest, as they say, is history...
...sentimental reveries and tie-dyed rhetoric employed by such veteran protesters as Ramsey Clark and Daniel Ellsberg, the peace movement of 1990 only faintly resembles that of the Vietnam era. More than anything, its members seem to want to support the President's policy of standing up to Saddam Hussein and defending Saudi Arabia. But Bush's sudden switch two weeks ago from a defensive to an offensive strategy has raised all sorts of questions. Have sanctions been given enough time to work? Is the U.S. shouldering too much of the burden? Should the President proceed without approval from Congress...
...wars, the U.S. could finally lay down its burdens. Calls rang out for cutting the defense budget in half by the end of the decade. The New Yorker, with its unerring instinct for the politically trendy and the politically stupid, suggested (quoting Daniel Ellsberg) doing the 50% cut right now. In Congress the rush was on for wholesale American demobilization. A reporter, complaining at a Feb. 12 White House press conference about "out of sync" defense spending, asked the President, "Who's the enemy...
...assumed I was breaking the law," Ellsberg said. "Many of you have studied the question of when to resign [and also divulge secrets]....I hope you will all consider risking jail in certain circumstances, and I hope you will indeed do it in certain circumstances...