Your government will send you "to kill and die for noble-sounding rot..."

another one bites the dust...

glenn greenwald covers rod dreher's much-belated enlightenment...

I have got to teach my kids that they must never, ever take Presidents and Generals at their word - that their government will send them to kill and die for noble-sounding rot - that they have to question authority.

One of the very few potential benefits of the Iraq tragedy is that it may raise the level of doubt and cynicism with which Americans evaluate the claims of the Government...

as a card-carrying member of the hippie generation, for my money, this is dreher's best quote...

On the walk to the parking garage, it hit me. Hadn't the hippies tried to tell my generation that? Why had we scorned them so blithely?

all i can say in response is, to the rest of americans still asleep, WTFU...!

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