New York Times columnist Bob Herbert is one of my favorite op-ed writers. I admire how he uses his column space each week to stand up for human rights and social justice.
His most recent column, titled "Someone Else's Child", is one of his best ever.
An excerpt:
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It has become clearer than ever that Americans do not want to fight George W. Bush's tragically misguided war in Iraq.
You can still find plenty of folks arguing that we have to stay the course, or even raise the stakes by sending more troops to the war zone. But from the very start of this war the loudest of the flag-waving hawks were those who were safely beyond military age themselves and were unwilling to send their own children off to fight.
It's easy to be macho when you have nothing at risk. The hawks want the war to be fought with other people's children, while their own children go safely off to college, or to the mall. The number of influential American officials who have children in uniform in Iraq is minuscule.
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[Read entire column.]
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