Reply #109: I was and still am, but--

[jfxgillis]

--I simply refrained from posting on the subject.

Feelings were running too high and all the anti-/pro- threads were deteriorating almost instantaneously. Discourse and dialectic were impossible in such an atmosphere. I'm NOT complaining, mind you; simply stating what looked emperically verifiable.

I would have been sorely disappointed if feelings WEREN'T running high. This is life-or-death stuff. It's the kind of thing we're SUPPOSED to get passionate about.

I did try to run a pro-war thread in June when a pro-war lib/lefty, Paul Berman, was on C-Span booknotes.

Frankly though, now the anti-/pro- arguments are again pointless, though for a very different reason. We all have to live in the world that has been made. There is a profound difference between discussing the FUTURE in light of a mistaken policy in the PAST and discussing whether or not what happened in the past should have happened.