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...anti-war teach-in held on Sunday night perpetuated the acceptability of discussing serious issues through fluffy rhetoric (News, “On Eve of Vote, Professors Question War??, March 17). The absence of a single anti-war voice who could address the complexities of the impending war in Iraq was astounding. Instead of discussing pivotal issues such as peaceful alternatives to disarmament, diplomatic strategies to initiate much-needed regime change in Iraq and the like, the professors who led the teach-in resorted to reading poetry, offering unsubstantiated conspiracy theories and kindergartenesque name-calling of the Bush...
...panel, introduced and moderated by Kennedy School of Government (KSG) Dean Joseph S. Nye Jr.—who has recently come out in favor of war??included prominent speakers from both sides of the debate...
...Academic Dean Stephen Walt—who Nye characterized as one of the “leading voices among realists [on] why we shouldn’t go to war??—said that the United States is in danger of permanently souring its diplomatic relationships...
Much of the rhetoric advanced by war??s proponents rests on the premise that our efforts at “liberation” will lead to a more democratic Iraq; but this is overly optimistic. Installing the mechanisms for democratic government in Iraq—whose infrastructure will have been decimated by war??requires an enormous commitment. But after its failure in Afghanistan, we doubt the Bush administration’s will to follow through. Before war began in Afghanistan, the President’s public goals were to dismantle the Taliban government, destroy terrorist training...
...still stand by our position opposed to war??but it’s very important that we stand by our soldiers as well,” he said...