“Whether it is an ill-specified axis of evil, or a decision to make tactical nuclear war thinkable, or a domestic ”shadow government,” or deliberately leaked plans to attack Iraq, George W. Bush in his own way is as frightening as Al Qaeda… There is only so much we can do about the risk of random assault, but we can at least reclaim our own democracy. Terrorism, unfortunately, is all too real. But so is one’s terror of the Bush presidency. Every reckless scheme will have to be challenged with the only means we have: democratic opposition. Right after Sept. 11, there was no place for a popular movement against the Afghan War. But there must now be one against the administration’s ill-considered sequels. Otherwise, the daily risk will only increase, not just because of Them but because of Us.” – Robert Kuttner, equating president Bush with al Qaeda and calling for a Vietnam-like resistance to the war on terror.
INSIDE THE JESUITS: A balanced and helpful review by Garry Wills in the latest New York Review is definitely worth reading. It deals with what some have called “the gaying and graying” of the Society of Jesus in non-hysterical, non-homophobic terms. It’s of a book, Passionate Uncertainty: Inside the American Jesuits that also looks like well worth a perusal.
The Dish 