The Head Heeb : Knocking Down 4000 Years of Icons

There is a difference between principled unilateralism and contempt for the rest of the world. There is a difference between vigilance at home and gratuitous erosion of civil liberties. There is a difference between measured use of military force and wanton disregard for the political and social elements of the conflict. There is a difference between genuinely humanitarian intervention and a Noriega-style takedown of a former client, based on manufactured excuses, that will result in continued Ba'athist rule with the serial numbers filed off. All these things will happen if this war continues on its present course - and all these things will exact a terrible price in broken alliances and lost freedoms without bringing victory.

To paraphrase Jim Henley, I will support this war again when we return to fighting it like the United States of fucking America.

it's about torture, the war on (some) drugs, and the war on terrorism/iraq.