`Above All, Do No Harm': The War in Iraq and Dissent: Responds
Rule, James B.
ACCUSATIONS OF attempted censorship, or even of favoring it, are serious. Leveling them against me in this context is a serious mistake. It is indeed a scandal that America's invasion and...
...They lie in the fact that Dissent personalities have articulated them...
...In the face of political and ethical disaster, I would be derelict not to lay it on the line as to how far the proponents of American aggression have strayed from what I regard as the core values of the magazine...
...But exercising that right carries no immunity from candor from one's colleagues...
...If I don't say so, I'm in danger of being implicated...
...40 n DISSENT / Summer 2005...
...Under long "common law" tradition within the magazine, established members of the Dissent community quite properly have the right to their say in print here, even when their words go against the grain...
...It is indeed a scandal that America's invasion and occupation of Iraq have received support in the pages of Dissent—much to the discredit of the magazine, just as I wrote...
...But the scandal and discredit don't arise from the editorial decision to print these views...
Vol. 52 • July 2005 • No. 3
