Ithaca Anti-war teach-in draws hundreds

Ithaca Journal ^ | Wednesday, October 23, 2002 | By ESTHER CAMPI

[Behind Liberal Lines]

ITHACA -- Several hundred students lugging backpacks swept in and out of a daylong teach-in Tuesday at Cornell University aimed at mobilizing the community against a war in Iraq.

Professors of history, government, politics and media from both Cornell and Ithaca College were invited to the forum, sponsored by the student-led Cornell Anti-War Coalition.

[Behind Liberal Lines]

"Saddam Hussein didn't just appear out of the blue in August 1990," he said of the Gulf War. "There's a huge history, the previous 10 years."

That's the same argument they used about Iraq ten years ago. It's also the same argument they used in Afghanistan.

However, isn't it equally valid to say that, if we helped create a problem, we have, not only a right, buy duty to "fix" it?

And even more so than that, why should the U.S. allow itself to be continually punished for mistakes made in the past? Using the illogic of these peacenik profs, a woman who married a drunkard or man with a bad temper should be "stuck" with a drunken abusive husband because "there's a huge history."

Typical "blame the victim" mentality.

Cornell government professor Theodore J. Lowi warned students that "You can always find events to prove your point, but the prevention of bad things (happening) to us is the only measure we have," he said. "That's almost impossible to verify."

WAIT A MINUTE!!!

The entire liberal philosophy is based on the prevention of bad things happening!

Every burdensome regulation, every new government program is based on the prevention of some "bad" thing: we have to tax the rich or school children will starve; we have to ban SUVs because they will destroy the environment...all threats that are "impossible to verify."

But now, when its about attacking a belligerant despot, suddenly the liberals claim that this sort of thinking is wrong because the harm is "impossible to verify"?

Sheesh.

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[Behind Liberal Lines]

City of Evil.Bump

[nicmarlo]

"If the United States sets the precedent for engaging in preventive wars, what's to say that other countries shouldn't also do it?" he asked

What BS. Sean Hannity pointed out so accurately the other night that this is the liberal mantra. He then pointed out the following: Iraq has broken 12 (I think) UN resolutions, repeatedly. Iraq has kicked out UN investigators. Iraq has not complied with UN regulations forbidding him to amass weapons of mass destruction. These are past actions which have gone on, unpunished, for 10 years.....therefore, what the US wants to do (go after Iraq) is based on past resolutions violated.

[Asclepius]

Cornell freshman Djani Johnson said he fears Bush may be motivated by politics.

Imagine that. A politician motivated by politics. Don't we want our politicians to be motivated by politics--i.e. sensitive to the concerns of voters?

Apparently the political left is taking RU486 for the head; they seem curiously void of compelling argument or analysis, and this was not always the case.

[AFPhys]

Well: I'm quite surprised that a Gannett paper included anything like a balancing viewpoint as the Journal did for a few paragraphs here. You won't see USAToday doing that...

[anniegetyourgun]

All that Ithaca could muster was a few hundred?

[Behind Liberal Lines]

All that Ithaca could muster was a few hundred?

It was cold and rainy in Ithaca yesterday. The mass social conscience always ebbs and flows with the weather.

[mewzilla]

Hope Musgrave and Strausss have tenure.

[Fixit]

Several hundred students lugging backpacks swept in and out

As written, this would appear to suggest that not many of them stuck around.

[mewzilla]

Frankly, if you had forced these protestors to take a pop quiz, I'd be willing to bet that most of them couldn't have located Iraq on a map with only one country left unidentified.

[Leisler]

Flowerpower, hairy girlfriends, pot, VW bus......Kind of a reinactment of the liberals greatest generation.

Pathetic.

[NativeNewYorker]

Lowi was an irrelevant, shallow, self-absorbed, over-the-hill hack when *I* had him in the mid-70s.

Guess a better gig hasn't come along.

[Soaring Feather]

It was cold and rainy in Ithaca yesterday. The mass social conscience always ebbs and flows with the weather.

True, true! And of course, we didn't see the braless gang out yesterday either, this charade happens when the sun shines, here in "The City of Evil"!