> Jean Bethke Elshtain Responds
> By Jean Bethke Elshtain
> SUMMER 2006
>
> WHETHER in agreement or demurral, one reads Michael Walzer with
> interest and respect. His work is a welcome contrast to the vicious
> rhetoric of accusation and denunciation that is so much a part of
> our public life.
>
Isn't that an inviting opening? Elshtain thinks Walzer <http:// www.dissentmagazine.org/article/?article=663> isn't aggressive enough in his interventionism.
Meanwhile, why don't these wankers give much consideration to the damage done by their own government and its allies? The word "Israel" is curiously missing from Walzer's essay, an intro to a new edition of his book on Just Wars.
Doug