Perry Anderson examines the "Casuistries of Peace and War" in the London Review of Books, analyzing the Bush putschistas'forced march to war and the troubles which lie ahead for those who oppose them:

Great mass movements are not to be judged by tight logical standards. Whatever their reasons, the multitudes who have protested against a war on Iraq are a whiplash to the governments bent on it. They include, in any case, many too young to have been compromised by its precedents. But if the movement is to have staying power, it will have to develop beyond the fixations of the fan club, the politics of the spectacle, the ethics of fright. For war, if it comes, will not be like Vietnam. It will be short and sharp; and there is no guarantee that poetic justice will follow. The full story...

Some ponder it. A few write about it. But do enough practice it? Ethical war: the full story...