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3/27/2003 06:55:00 PM | Timothy Columbia anti-war teach-in "Tom Ridge has a faith based civil defense, also known as praise the lord and pass the duct tape." Yes, professors sometimes are enjoyable to listen to, which I was glad for as I sat through and took notes during the entire six hours of an anti-war teach-in held yesterday in Lowe Library at Columbia. Over 20 professors gave 10 minute speeches that were (for the most part) detailed and interesting and covered a variety of topics relating to Iraq, international law, civil liberties and the like. I'll be blogging on the speeches because I think many professors presented interesting points that have not been heard widely or at least have not been as well articulated elsewhere in such a condensed fashion. Keep in mind that these notes are my impressions of the speech and my summaries are necessarily selective, and I will update them. The event was organized by Prof. Jean Cohen (also my first-year advisor in the Political Science Ph.D. program), who introduced the event with remarks on how people are aware there is something serious and new going on the world today with the start of the war that many of us feel is illegitimate and illegal. Cohen lamented those who advocated Human Rights fundamentalism in a way that ended up serving the goals of power. Cohen noted that the legitimacy is generated through discussion, so people have to agree on action beforehand; the war cannot be legitimated ex post facto if, say, the U.S. army was welcomed by Iraqis as liberators, or if U.S. troops found stockpiles of Weapons of Mass Destruction. She feared domestically we were heading down a path that would "make McCarthyism seem like small talk." She smiled as she said that the teach-in was meant to be a learning expereience, so "if you need to be passionate, take it outside." perma link |
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