“The voice of protest, of warning, of appeal is never more needed than when the clamor of fife and drum, echoed by the press and too often by the pulpit, is bidding all men fall in and keep step and obey in silence the tyrannous word of command. Then, more than ever, it is the duty of the good citizen not to be silent.” – Charles Eliot Norton
Monday, January 5, 2009
Add one part failed politician to one part right-wing legal expert and you have a recipe for a NYTimes op-ed!
Will someone please explain to John Bolton that international law and diplomacy do serve some purpose other than hamstringing US unilateralism. The fact that someone involved in the Bush administration is even TALKING about curbing executive power makes me want to dedicate the rest of my academic life to blogging about how poorly qualified this man is to speak on issues of politics. Every time he opens his mouth a new black hole is formed somewhere in the void to slowly begin sucking reason and rationality out of the dialogue of humankind.
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