well, as i think tom knox will say, where is he anyway? as tom knox would say, my reaction to this was not only to be against the war but to suddenly say what have i been doing writing all these wonderful things about liberal internationalism when it's under the flag of wilsonianism, promotion of human rights that we are engaged in this well, what did obama call it?dumb war with the invasion of iraq. not that the war against afghanistan to get rid of al qaeda was wrong but to fly the flag operation iraqi freedom, that iraq and afghanistan were going to be democratized, what was going on here? so i for a while was flummoxed. i wasn't sure but that my opposition to the war should translate into an opposition to things that i personally like. human rights watch, amnesty international , oxfam. doctors without borders, you name it, i'm probably a member of it. okay, so this went on for a while, this kind of confusion. how had the 1940s, the greatest decade in the history of american foreign policy, how had given way beginning in 19 2003 to the