
“If they had known then what they know now, they assured us, they would have acted differently. This, of course, is false. The war boosters, especially the ‘liberal hawks’—who included Hillary Clinton, Chuck Schumer, Al Franken and John Kerry, along with academics, writers and journalists such as Bill Keller, Michael Ignatieff, Nicholas Kristof, David Remnick, Fareed Zakaria, Michael Walzer, Paul Berman, Thomas Friedman, George Packer, Anne-Marie Slaughter, Kanan Makiyaand the late Christopher Hitchens—did what they always have done: engage in acts of self-preservation. To oppose the war would have been a career killer. And they knew it.”
http://www.truthdig.com/report/print/the_treason_of_the_intellectuals_20130331/
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