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...this president’s mind tends to wander, and commitments made to starving people give way to tax cuts and new military adventures. If we want a lasting peace and a country that is not hated around the world, the American people must ensure that Iraq is not forgotten as Afghanistan has been. Afghanistan’s return to the opium trade should remind us that ravaged and neglected countries often revert to old ways. If we fail to secure the peace in Iraq, whatever progress we buy with American, British and Iraqi blood will go up in smoke...
...plan had a flaw: I had forgotten about the war. Not the war itself, of course, but what ABC calls the WAR with IRAQ: war in its reality television incarnation. Because my recent television viewing has been restricted to such special events as President George W. Bush’s State of the Union address and the Joe Millionaire finale, the extent to which war had permeated regularly scheduled programming shocked me. I watched, supine, as a series of wildly divergent film clips unrolled on the television screen: in downtown Manhattan, hundreds of protesters were flopping onto the pavement...
...heard of or--like the six Americans killed when their helicopter crashed in Afghanistan last week--in accidents far from home. Guerrilla warfare may have fine American antecedents, but we have always recoiled from accepting a slow, endless drip of casualties from contests whose stated purpose we have long forgotten. Soon we may have to get used...
Reminders of our troubled past, especially the civil rights era when minorities felt intimidated in voting places due to their race, must not be forgotten. One’s race or religion should never have to become an issue in a duty as fundamental and vital as voting. But when voting takes place in a church, some voters may feel intimidated, uncomfortable or unwelcome, especially in small towns where religious diversity...
This weak characterization, especially of secondary roles, is temporarily forgotten in this production by virtue of the high quality of acting. Kastleman is able to pull emotionally textured performances from all of her actors that highlight the poetry of Rivera’s text without sacrificing immediacy or impact...