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Ridding Iraq of weapons of mass destruction. That was the whole idea, right? That‘s why we went. I am reluctant to let that fact disappear down the memory hole, because if— as the war ends, or at least starts to end— if, at this time, the history of the war is written as us going there to topple the regime of a bad man when that frankly isn‘t why were told that we were going there— Aren‘t we still at risk of making this horrific mistake again? And, aren‘t we letting the people who foisted the WMD idea on us, not many years ago, aren‘t we sort of letting them get away with it?


Rachel Maddow


#memory-hole #mistake #politics #rachel-maddow #war

A president who is burdened with a failed and unpopular war, and who has lost the trust of the country, simply can no longer govern. He is destined to become as much a failure as his war.


Glenn Greenwald


#governance #iraq-war #lyndon-b-johnson #politics #united-states

Anti-Americanism may indeed have grown fiercer than it was during the cold war. It is a common phenomenon that when the angels fail to deliver, the demons become more fearsome.


Ian Buruma


#bigotry #cold-war #leftism #politics #united-states

Les personnages de nos autres vies sont des fantômes que la littérature fait revivre.


Olivier Weber


#africa #colonialism #french-writer #literature #report

Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures.


Jessamyn West


#on-fiction #reality #truth #truth

So what is the difference between someone who willfully indulges in sexual pleasures while ignoring the Bible on moral purity and someone who willfully indulges in the selfish pursuit of more and more material possessions while ignoring the Bible on caring for the poor? The difference is that one involves a social taboo in the church and the other involves the social norm in the church.


David Platt


#spirituality #dreams

Dreams dress us carefully in the colors of power and faith.


Aberjhani


#dreams #faith #inspiration #inspirational #metaphysics

No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality.


Shirley Jackson


#escapism #first-sentence #opening-lines #reality #sanity

If someone with multiple personalities threatens to kill himself, is it considered a hostage situation?


George Carlin


#kill

I don’t believe one reads to escape reality. A person reads to confirm a reality he knows is there, but which he has not experienced.


Lawrence Durrell


#reading #reality #escape






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