NY Times Says No to War Re: Fwd: Edward Said on who is in charge of policy

[Yoshie Furuhashi]

><http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2003/628/op2.htm>
>Al-Ahram Weekly (Cairo) - March 8, 2993
>Who is in charge?
>A tiny, unelected group, supported by powerful, unrepresentative 
>minorities, writes Edward Said
>Edward Said
<snip>
>There are no antiwar voices to read or hear in any of the major 
>medias of this country, no Arabs or Muslims (who have been consigned 
>en masse to the ranks of the fanatics and terrorists of this world), 
>no critics of Israel, not on Public Broadcasting, not in The New 
>York Times, the New Yorker, US News and World Report, CNN and the 
>rest.

Professor Said exaggerates.

*****   New York Times Editorial
March 9, 2003

Saying No to War

Within days, barring a diplomatic breakthrough, President Bush will 
decide whether to send American troops into Iraq in the face of 
United Nations opposition. We believe there is a better option 
involving long-running, stepped-up weapons inspections. But like 
everyone else in America, we feel the window closing. If it comes 
down to a question of yes or no to invasion without broad 
international support, our answer is no....

<http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/09/opinion/09SUN1.html>   *****

Is this the first time that the New York Times editorialized against 
a US war before it started?
-- 
Yoshie

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