Colman Mccarthy Quotes

With a few exceptions, the media have phrased the past five months as a contest of wills between Bush and Saddam Hussein, not as a moment of deragement between two armed madmen willing to order their young to slaughter each other. Analysis -endless analysis- has been offered about the two men's tactics, as if they were coaches preparing for the Super Bowl.

~ Colman Mccarthy

Bush spoke of another principle, that a just war must support a just cause. In the Persian Gulf, he said, our cause could not be more noble. What nation has ever said its war was not noble?

~ Colman Mccarthy

Flacks for both war-obsessed governments immediately blamed the other side for the deaths of the civilians.

~ Colman Mccarthy

If peace is what every government says it seeks, and peace is the yearning of every heart, why aren't we studying it and teaching it in schools?

~ Colman Mccarthy