Except for the rare few, like Barbara Lee, Maxine Waters, Lynn Woolsey, and John Lewis, our representatives are politicians, and will surrender their integrity, claiming to be "realistic."
We are not politicians, but citizens. We have no office to hold on to, only our consciences, which insist on telling the truth. That, history suggests, is the most realistic thing a citizen can do.
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The author makes a well reasoned argument for the citizens in our country who believe we should have never gone into Iraq to stand firmly against political pressure to accept "what we can get". While the politicians in DC have to play the political game, we citizens don't, and history shows that we shouldn't. Excellent opinion piece regardless of one's view on the subject.
Zinn incisively explores the moral questions of compromise in authorizing funds for invasion and occupation. This is a good read.
Well, it certainly expresses the "surrender now" crowds feelings. I can only wonder if any of these "thinking citizens" have reflected on what happens if we simply leave. The jehadists win and the middle east becomes, once again, their playground. Move On could hardly be called a balanced source for anything realistic.
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