Wednesday, August 24, 2005
This is just a quick link to follow -- an "aside." These are links to interesting things that, for one reason or another, I didn't place into a full posting. Click the link to visit the full article. Go to the blog index for a regular listing of posts.
Peace with Realism: The Duplicity of Cindy Sheehan - '...It is considered unseemly to say anything bad about a grieving mother. But grief confers neither automatic sainthood nor infallibility. Nor does having suffered loss excuse a lack of integrity. Sheehan has been called a "victim" and a "pawn" of the anti-war movement. She is anything but. She is a political activist who knows exactly what she is doing. Her actions are not the expression of a grieving heart thrown into chaos. They represent a calculated political strategy...' (Link)
