Tuesday night’s special election for the Massachusetts Senate seat formerly held by Ted Kennedy and JFK before him was a perfect lesson in American democracy: citizens fed up with their elected leaders forced a change. Tocqueville is smiling in his grave.
It is difficult to rebut Mr. Thompson’s “poem,” as it lacks factual points and represents a type of fairytale simplistic utopianism that is disappointing to see from a Wesleyan student.
As a physical war breaks out on the streets of Gaza between Israeli soldiers and Hamas terrorists, a different kind of war is being waged across the world: the Public Relations war.
At least 300,000 dead; 2.5 million displaced; rape, pillaging and destruction of villages; ethnic cleansing; genocide of innocent civilians, including women and children. I am, of course, talking about the ongoing situation in Darfur, Sudan.
When walking around campus, I feel that there is a sentiment to end the war in Iraq. This sentiment is only strengthened by student groups like Students for Ending the War in Iraq (SEWI) who push for an immediate, unconditional withdrawal of American troops from Iraq and Afghanistan in irresponsible disregard to geopolitical reality.