Letter: U.S. must reevaluate effects of war against Iraq
(10/02/02 4:00am)
Amid all of this emotionally charged rhetoric of name-calling and war waging, the human capacity for reason seems to have vanished. Frankly, there hasn't been an original idea about Iraq in the popular consciousness since the George W. Bush administration first laid out its policy and the Democrats their rebuttal. Now, months later, the op-ed page of The Chronicle is a genuine farce, with columnists only interested in the blind recantation of side A or side B, and never any effort to scrutinize the basic arguments of either. It is suddenly appropriate just to parrot the ideas of others under the assumption that they are correct. We should be smarter than that.