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I appreciated the recent contribution by Aileen Mory to npr’s “this i believe” series: link (to listen to or read her commentary).  About the Iraq war she says:

I don’t have a solution, but I think I may have figured out what’s missing from my perspective on democracy: pain — universal, democratic pain. In terms of the Iraq war, this country’s burden is being shouldered by a select few. Some families and communities have been devastated by the war. Others, like mine, have been far too…