Quote of the Day

"Another effect of the ‘support the troops’ (meaning in fact, support the war) message is that it elides any debate about what the war is actually about and what it costs in every sense, and obscures deep splits within US society. Before the war, the entire discourse centered on Iraqi “weapons of mass destruction.” Now, three weeks into it, as US forces have found no evidence of such weapons, 58 percent of Americans say that finding them is not necessary to justify the war. We seem to be looking at a process whereby as the stated reasons for it fade from consciousness, the war becomes self-justifying, based largely on the perception that it is a success."

More of this essay can be found at: Pockets of anti-war resistance in America