Wednesday, October 23, 2002 at 10:00 AM EDT
The Liberal Case for War
“Predators of the twenty-first century will be all the more lethal if we allow them to build arsenals of nuclear, chemical, and biological weapons and the missiles to deliver them. … There is no more clear example of this threat than Saddam Hussein’s Iraq.”
Familiar words. Unfamiliar messenger. The quote belongs to Bill Clinton, the former President who had a decidedly hawkish stance on Iraq. There’s a new regime singing that tune in the White House now, but, says The New Republic’s Jonathan Chait, there’s no good reason for liberals not to sing along.
Tonight On Point: The Liberal case for a war in Iraq.
Guests:
Jonathan Chait, senior editor, The New Republic
Jack Beatty, On Point news analyst and senior editor at The Atlantic Monthly
