I didn't post anything on President Bush's speech last night because I thought it would be a distraction from my blogging on The Pilgrim's Progress, but I'll put in a quick post before heading off to work.
I was impressed with President Bush's case for action in Iraq, just as I always have been. In a letter to friends I wrote last night, including a relative in Europe who is active in the anti-war movement, I wrote "Look, we all want peace. There's real long-term peace and fake short-term peace however. If terrorists ever obtain weapons of mass destruction, then peaceful life on earth will have come to an end forever and irrevocably*. That is an outcome we must prevent, and it is worth war to do so."
Daniel Henninger has a good piece on an anti-anti-Americanism movement in today's Wall Street Journal, provided on their non-subscription site, Opinion Journal.
* I suppose one could say that we've never had peaceful life on earth. To that I'd only say, there's going to be a magnitude of difference between today and tomorrow if tomorrow has Al Qaeda in possession of nuclear weapons. In my opinion the consequences would be apocalyptic in magnitude.
Posted by joelfuhrmann at March 7, 2003 07:37 AM