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August 1, 2006
speaking of being on the wrong side of history
"Are my wife and kids terrorists, do they have rockets?" [via juan cole]
also:
I'm sitting here, for example, in my house tonight in darkness -- there's no electricity -- next to a car park. What if someone launches a missile from the car park? Am I supposed to die for that? Is that a death sentence for me? Is that how Israel wages war? If I have children in the basement, are they to die for that? And then I'm told it's my fault or it's Hezbollah's fault? You know, these are serious moral questions. [full story][also via juan cole]
When my children ask me about this time we're living through, when they ask what I was doing while these people killed children and subverted the Constitution, will my "DON'T BLAME ME, I VOTED FOR GORE AND KERRY!!" bumper-sticker be enough to protect me from their disgust and condemnation?
oh! also:
The US has heavy legal and moral responsibilities for what is now happening. Of all the CO2 emissions produced from fossil fuels so far, we are responsible for almost 30 percent, an amount much larger than that of the next-closest countries, China and Russia, each less than 8 percent. Yet our responsibility and liability may run higher than those numbers suggest. The US cannot validly claim to be ignorant of the consequences. When nations must abandon large parts of their land because of rising seas, what will our liability be? And will our children, as adults in the world, carry a burden of guilt, as Germans carried after World War II, however unfair inherited blame may be? [full story]
Posted by ebogjonson in politricknal sciences, on August 1, 2006 10:14 AM
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