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Last week I began to realize why so many people hate peaceniks. I was at Suffolk Law School with Jason L. Steorts ’03 for a taping of Laura Ingraham??s conservative radio show. We were slated to appear on the show to give “college students’ perspectives” on why we thought intervention (Steorts) or non-intervention (myself) were the right move in Afghanistan. We were bumped from the show—apparently President Bush’s press-conference and a telephone call from Sen. John Kerry...
Ingraham and her vociferous crowd eviscerated the two neo-hippies and they left having accomplished little other than too further entrench thousands of Ingraham??s right-wing listeners in their hatred of egg-sucking anti-American liberals. As I lay in bed later that night I had two thoughts: one was that I was grateful to have been bumped by Kerry and Bush, for fear that making an argument for peace after those two would have meant an almost certain stoning during a commercial break. The other was a slow awakening as to why so many people...
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