2004

• Kerry Needs the Courage to Walk Away from Iraq (Miami Herald, September 16): "If John Kerry wants to win, he must recognize that our military intervention in Iraq is a disaster -- for Americans, for Iraqis, for the world. He must stop boasting about his courage in Vietnam and instead start talking about his moral courage in opposing that war. He needs to stop saying, as he did recently in the Midwest, that he defended this country when he was fighting in Vietnam. That is not an honest statement. If it were true, then he would not have turned against the war." [read more...]
  
  
• Check the Facts Before Rushing to War (Newsday, April 14): "After a year of fighting in Iraq and an occupation fraught with violence, surely it is not rash to suggest, given the debacle over missing "weapons of mass destruction," that it is a good general rule to treat any official rationale for war with skepticism." [read more...]

2003

• A Kinder, Gentler Patriotism (Newsday, April 13): "At some point soon the United States will declare a military victory in Iraq. As a patriot, I will not celebrate. I will mourn the dead - the American GIs, and also the Iraqi dead, of which there will be many, many more. I will mourn the Iraqi children who may not die, but who will be blinded, crippled, disfigured, or traumatized, like the bombed children of Afghanistan who, as reported by American visitors, lost their power of speech." [read more...]

2002

• The Case Against War on Iraq (Boston Globe, August 19): "The Bush administration's plan for preemptive war against Iraq so flagrantly violates both international law and common morality that we need a real national debate." [read more...]

2001

• McVeigh's Path to Death Chamber (Boston Globe, June 16): "Now that Timothy McVeigh has been put to death, and some people's need for revenge or punishment may be satisfied, we can begin to think calmly of how he learned his twisted sense of right and wrong from the government that executed him." [read more...]