Amen.

A letter to William Kristol's employer:

To the Editor:

In William Kristol’s attack on MoveOn.org’s new antiwar ad, he assumes that the Iraqi war is moral, just and in our interest; then he condemns a mother who wants her newborn son to avoid fighting in that war when he comes of age, leaving the fight against terrorism to others so she and her son can live in narcissistic bliss.

But the message of the ad is that the war is immoral, unjust and against our interest, and that hawkish and narcissistic Republicans like President Bush and John McCain seek to perpetuate the war indefinitely by placing others in harm’s way. The poignant image of the infant Alex potentially fighting in Iraq or Iran in 17 years vividly warns of the dangers of continuing down the path of gun-toting cowboy imperialistic foreign policy.

The message isn’t someone else’s Alex; it’s no one else’s Alex.

Jeff Hersh
Austin, Tex., June 23, 2008