I should clarify something during this season when everyone hopes for repose and well will: I am not a pacifist.
If war is forced upon us, we get no alternative but to oppose it. Ernest Hemingway said it well when he discovered that there are various things worse than war, and they all do with defeat.
I have defendd and still oppose the war in Iraq because, knowing something around the Middle East, I knew it would be futile.
