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Stories from 2003-03-23

Can the Peace Movement Reinvent Itself?

Todd Gitlin | Los Angeles Times | March 23, 2003

"For all its ragged edges, the movement against war in Iraq mushroomed into a global force unprecedented in speed and scale. Never in the history of the world had so many marched in common cause." [more]

Emotions Mixed for Soldiers Hunting Qaeda

Indira A.R. Lakshmanan | Boston Globe | March 23, 2003

"Some combat troops privately admitted feeling sidelined in a country where only weak pockets of enemy forces remain after 17 months of US and allied operations to root out Al Qaeda." [more]

When a Gun Is More than a Gun

Noah Shachtman | Wired News | March 23, 2003

"It is among the most horrific weapons in any army's collection: the thermobaric bomb, a fearsome explosive that sets fire to the air above its target, then sucks the oxygen out of anyone unfortunate enough to have lived through the initial blast. In the next few months, the U.S. Army will start putting this sweeping power in the hands of individual soldiers." [more]

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This website is a tribute to Why War?, one of the nation's first and most innovative post-9/11 student antiwar organizations. Born on October 22, 2001 at Swarthmore College, we were a handful of freshmen and sophmores who vocally opposed the wars in Afghanistan, Iraq and elsewhere. And now, seven years later, we are retiring this website as we focus our efforts on new directions. We hope that it continues to serve future activists and we remain confident that humanity is on the verge birthing a better world.