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Weldell Berry is one of the most thoughtful and flat-out-excellent journalists of our time. His latest is A Citizen’s Response to the National Security Strategy of the United States of America. An excerpt:
Unless we are willing to kill innocents in order to kill the guilty, the need to be lethal will be impeded constantly by the need to be careful. Because we must suppose a new supply of villains to be always in the making, we can expect the war on terrorism to be more or less endless, endlessly costly and endlessly supportive of a thriving bureaucracy.