Democrats, in control of Congress, are taking advantage of our ignorance to continue the Iraq War. Which brings up two questions: Why won't the "antiwar" Democrats act to stop the carnage? And why aren't reporters calling them on it?

They worry that they'll be portrayed as weak on defense if they act unilaterally to pull out of Iraq. Irony of ironies, they're wussing out to avoid looking wimpy.

After starting my study for a PhD in philosophy at the University of California, Berkeley, and working for six months on a kibbutz in Israel, I became aware of the unfair treatment of Palestinians within Israeli society, something never discussed at JTS. As an American proud of all the good in this country, I had no choice but to speak out and become an active organizer against American racism and the war in Vietnam. Similarly, when I began to learn the shocking truth about racist treatment of Palestinians by the state that claimed to be the State of the Jewish people, I felt that my deep commitment to Judaism gave me no option but to speak out and critique Israeli policy as a violation of Jewish values and norms.

In order to withdraw his guilty plea, Craig will have to persuade a judge that a senator of this great nation can be a complete doofus, too dimwitted to understand simple English and too brainless to find an attorney who does.

Which means it ought to take a judge about five minutes to rule in Craig’s favor.