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Bunker-buster bombs have been falling over Iraq for almost two weeks. U.S. troops are a few dozen miles outside of Baghdad. Even a majority of British citizens now support ousting Saddam. Yet peace protesters around the world continue to whine about the lack of a U.N. mandate. No matter what France says, the United States did not need U.N. approval to attack Iraq, and it should not have tried to get it in the first place...
Though some criticize blogs as frivolous soapboxes for those without a medium to vent and whine, Winer said he is confident that introducing more blogs to Harvard is a worthwhile pursuit...
...contrary to what many Americans think about angry campus activism, we are not spoiled suburban children craving something to whine about. There is another more fundamental reason that protesters enjoy both prominence and mainstream acceptance on our campus...
...National Merit Scholars and published writers who matriculate each year at Harvard, have spent most of our young lives proving to everyone how smart we are, when suddenly, a campus full of other smart people shatters our self-confidence. Insecurity about our own intellectualism, more than a desire to whine, drives us to support activist organizations that fight for “enlightened” social causes. We become part of the intellectual elite that cares about things like AIDS in Africa and the living wage, and we thrive on the mystique...
...allow ourselves to be preoccupied with global injustice and the nefarious right-wingers who perpetrate it. But we ignore the fact that Harvard has given us something real to whine about: a lousy undergraduate education. We won’t organize in protest for greater faculty involvement with students, but we will demand that the faculty be more ethnically diverse. We don’t care how engaging our courses are, as long as the syllabi include historically marginalized groups...