"Taking Sides: The Iraq War Will Divide the World — For the Better"

By Daniel Henninger at OpinionJournal today:

.... Which side are you on? Some surely will recoil at the suggestion that we should so simply reduce the politics of this war. But the war against Saddam Hussein is a rare, defining event, as Vietnam was. It is going to establish divisions for a generation--in relations among nations, in voting patterns. Long-term claims to moral standing are at stake. Among families and friends, these matters in time will never come up again, but like villagers in occupied France, no one's ever going to forget either.

These are not the destructive divisions so often worried over by instinctive moderates and multilateralists. These are constructive divisions, which are driving the world's people toward making a decision about what they believe in, why they believe it and what kind of world they want to live in.

Lane Core Jr. CIW P — Fri. 03/28/03 06:20:52 PM
Categorized as Social/Cultural.