James B. Rule Replies

Bad faith, indeed! George Packer’s opening sentences in the New York Times Magazine article he published as the Iraq invasion loomed read, “If you’re a liberal, why haven’t you joined the antiwar movement? More to the point, why is there no antiwar movement that you’d want to join?” A little more than two months after these words appeared, an antiwar demonstration numbering somewhere between three hundred thousand and one million filled the streets of New York. Similar demonstrations occurred on the same date in other U.S. cities and abroad.

Had these utterly legitimate protests been heard, the massive destruction triggered by this disastrous invasion would have been averted.