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UK lefties and appeasers are ramping up for big protests while the President of the United States is in town, as they continue to spread the word that removing vicious, threatening regimes from power — even after September 11th and its lessons — is somehow incompatible with their utopian visions. (Oh I forgot, the “lessons” were about how badly the U.S. has acted in the Middle East, particularly in its support of the only liberal democracy in the region.)

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I’ve had a nice response to the entry (2 entries ago) regarding Sophie Scholl and the German resistance group The White Rose. Thank you to the people who have written.

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Paul Craddick, blogging at Fragmenta Philosophica, packs a lot into these 800 words responding to the complaint “There never was a consistent rationale for war; the ‘case’ kept changing.”

It’s part three of an ongoing “Rethinking Iraq” series.

Because of something I wrote about here yesterday, I spent much of the day thereafter re-reading for the hundredth time many of the excerpts from the letters and diary entries of Sophie Scholl. And because of something I coincidentally read today, I now want to write a bit about Sophie Scholl. I type her name knowing full well that many readers will not know who she is. Good, because then I get to introduce her in the way I see fit.

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