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With a few exceptions, the media have phrased the past five months as a contest of wills between Bush and Saddam Hussein, not as a moment of deragement between two armed madmen willing to order their young to slaughter each other. Analysis -endless analysis- has been offered about the two men's tactics, as if they were coaches preparing for the Super Bowl.Colman McCarthy
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Bush spoke of another principle, that a just war must "support a just cause." In the Persian Gulf, he said, "our cause could not be more noble." What nation has ever said its war was not noble?Colman McCarthy
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Flacks for both war-obsessed governments immediately blamed the other side for the deaths of the civilians.Colman McCarthy
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If peace is what every government says it seeks, and peace is the yearning of every heart, why aren't we studying it and teaching it in schools?Colman McCarthy