#philklay — Public Fediverse posts
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“Power does not grow out of the barrel of a gun, cruelty is not the same as strength, and a politics built on such ideas promises ruin, delusion about the limits of our power and a betrayal of the promise of our founding.” #PhilKlay https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/22/opinion/trump-iran-war-memes.html
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“Hamas may be horrific, but just because you’ve diagnosed a malignant tumor doesn’t mean you hand a rusty scalpel to a drunk and tell him to cut away while the patient screams in terror.” #PhilKlay https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2024/03/gaza-war-indefensible-united-states/677896/ ht @davidtoddmccarty
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“That doesn’t mean empathy isn’t a start, though. Which is why the retraction of the article is more than an act of cowardice and a betrayal of a writer whose work the magazine shepherded to publication. It’s a betrayal of the task of literature, which cannot end wars but can help us see why people wage them, oppose them, or become complicit in them.” #Guernica #TheAtlantic #Publishing #Literature #JoannaChen #PhilKlay #Palestine #Gaza #Israel #CeasefireNow https://www.theatlantic.com/books/archive/2024/03/guernica-retracted-essay-joanna-chen/677738/