Tuesday, March 4, 2003
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Overstatements about Germany
The debate about Iraq is starting to debilitate people's good judgment. For example, suddenly everyone is making loopy statements about German history that perhaps should be reconsidered. On the antiwar side, Mark Kleiman finds what he believes is the "stupidest, most offensive argument" in the entire debate in this Guardian lead editorial from last Friday:
On the other hand, methinks Andrew Sullivan may be indulging in some hyperbole in his latest post on the real agendas of various international actors in the Iraq debate. Most of them make sense, but this line on Germany is over the top:
Bloggers, commentators, protestors, I beg you... no more abuses of German history! posted by Dan on 03.04.03 at 09:46 AM |
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