Wednesday, February 21, 2007

Peretz: Political expediency and the nonbinding resolution

Our political imagination of evil is impoverished, and nowhere is it more impoverished than in Iraq. Even today, when the blood of innocents flows so richly and regularly, we do not seem to grasp its origins, or its power. That is, we do not seem to grasp the centrality, and the perdurability, of culture. And in this regard, the president and his party, as well as the Democratic Party, are equally blinded by their respective orthodoxies.

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from Sunday's WSJ, read it all at opinionjournal.com

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