To oppose the war is not appeasement but condemning bin Laden is also not warmongering.
You feed the warmongering "us against them" division when you attack even the barest statement that people in NYC and around the country have the right to be mightily angry about mass murder against family and friends. Telling people they have no right to their anger because of US crimes is the surest route to expand the cheerleading squad for the Sullivans of the world.
God, please save us from the "peace movement" evidenced on this list. You'd think they were working for Bush.
-- Nathan Newman
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From: Dennis
Tis a sad day when Alterman makes more sense than Hitchens who, for some reason or another (the loss of his friend Barbara Olson?), has fallen in line with Marty Peretz and Andrew Sullivan. He hasn't come out for bombing -- yet. The Nation waits . . .
http://thenation.com/doc.mhtml?i=20011008&s=alterman
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