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...when the Palestinians flatly turned it down, offered nothing in return and turned to violence and suicide bombs, the left this time recognized that the fault could not lie with Israel, that the failure of the peace process was the result of something they had not wanted to believe—that the Palestinians were still less interested in building an independent state of their own than in destroying the Jewish state...
That jibed nicely with 20th century liberal social theory: violence, crime and poverty were not the fault of the violent, the lawless and the poor but of society. Improve living conditions and you will cure the problems. Even mental illness and homosexuality were the result of family dynamics, went this line of reasoning. These notions, of course, flew in the face of everything conservatives held dear--the idea that the lower classes were inherently stupid and lazy, for example, and that rehabilitating lawbreakers was an exercise in futility--which may have been part of their appeal...
...would be easy to find fault with the idea put forth by Ebon Y. Lee ’03 that even the search for peace is not always preferable to war (Column, “How the Weak Wage War,” Oct. 21), but there is at least some logic to this concept—sometimes peace is so elusive that war is the only viable option. This controversial idea holds little water when war is a potentially viable solution, but none at all if the conflict is not a winnable one. The government of Colombia is simply...
...love, justice, and righteousness” require us to stop a brutal dictator who threatens the peace of the world, and who quite conceivably could endow terrorists with tools of apocalyptic slaughter. And they are not limited, as Gomes suggests, to “evangelicals who have found little fault with anything that this administration has done or proposes to do, and who seldom met a war they didn’t like.” This is abusive language for so ecumenical a preacher...
...That was my fault...