[madprof98]

``At some point, you can't sit still,'' said Vedder, a harsh critic of the Iraq war. ``You can't spend your life, when people are getting killed, without asking serious questions about why.''

Eddie is one of the music world's most active crusaders for abortion rights, having killed the child he and a girlfriend conceived when he was a teenager. He still justifies the killing by explaining that if he had had to care for a child, he never could have shared his genius with the world.

[itsamelman]

``At some point, you can't sit still,'' said Vedder... ``You can't spend your life, when people are getting killed, without asking serious questions about why.''

I could argue that this statement justifies our invasion of Afghanistan and Iraq.

To paraphrase Victor Davis Hanson, 3 million Afghani girls aren't going to school today because of a bunch of hippies with guitars, they're going to school because of the U.S. Marine Corps.