Opinion In Brief
Chilling condemnation
The Monroe Park Campus SGA’s decision last month to condemn September’s PETA display at VCU is understandable given the racial insensitivity involved in the display’s methods – comparing, for example, an African child with the image of a monkey.
Chilling condemnation
The Monroe Park Campus SGA’s decision last month to condemn September’s PETA display at VCU is understandable given the racial insensitivity involved in the display’s methods – comparing, for example, an African child with the image of a monkey.
Senators who supported the resolution say they are in favor of First Amendment rights. But by condemning an idea rather than the methods used to convey it, the senators’ actions don’t match their words.
‘Silly debate’
White House Counselor Dan Bartlett has suggested that the questions surrounding the failures of pre-war intelligence in Iraq are a “silly debate,” suggesting that Democrats such as President Clinton reached the same conclusion: that Saddam “was a threat.”
The question, however, is how imminent that threat was – and whether it justified an immediate invasion. There’s nothing silly about getting to the bottom of a decision to take a nation to war.
