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...Ahmed Bourghani phoned Mohammed Ali Abtahi, Khatami's former chief of staff, and asked him to come along and sign. Abtahi said no, but minutes before the book was shipped off to Washington, Bourghani showed up with a bouquet of white gladioli to sign on behalf of the Speaker of Parliament, Mehdi Karroubi...
...none of them support the needless killing of innocents. Who would be opposed to “a reasoned, just and forward-looking response” to our national tragedy? The important question is what responses are reasonable, what actions are just—and on this question, the speakers were silent. In order to affect the decisions of America’s leaders, our public debate needs to move beyond the clichés of yesterday’s rally, that innocent lives are sacred the world over or—as one speaker noted with some force?...
...Harvard rallies often have in keeping their causes straight. But the variety of rallygoers’ agendas does not excuse the blurring of vital distinctions that marred the rally’s message. In discussing the Bush administration’s warning to countries suspected of harboring terrorists, one speaker raised the example of domestic militia groups and the Ku Klux Klan. “We harbor those people,” he announced, and we harbored Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh—who, coincidentally, was executed last June...
...also dangerously undercuts the moral case that must be made as we seek justice. If the U.S. once “harbored terrorists who kept slaves,” does that mean we must forgive states that have not yet reached our exacting standards of morality? The speaker went on to quote an antebellum speech of Frederick Douglass, which attributed to America “crimes which would disgrace a nation of savages.” Though our history is flawed, our past mistakes must not prevent us from taking the proper actions today. Equivocating on a subject of such...
...demonstration breaks up after another speaker says Pakistan's president Perez Musharraf is destined to "die like a dog" for promising to support the US in its military operations. A small group of youths tear off down the narrow alleys, overturning fruit carts and banging on the metal shutters of the small shops. But the helmeted riot police do not intervene - they know that today was little more than a stage rehearsal for the anger and violent protests expected after the bombs start falling. And then there will be no apologizing for stepping on someone else's foot...