The Move.on ad generated a story in the Washington Post this morning which said that the leaders of this "small" organization were "unmoved" by the furor caused by the ad. The Post quoted an email sent out to supporters which said in part "Maybe you liked our General Petraeus ad. Maybe you thought the language went too far," they wrote. "But make no mistake: this is much bigger than one ad."
The Iraq issue is an important one. So the email was partially right. But so are the bounds of reasonable discussion. The leaders of Move.on seem to have no conception of what is appropriate. If the goal of the organization is to get us out of the war as quickly as possible, the personal attack on an officer who, by all accounts is an honorable man, is simply an over-step of immense proportions.
Dylan had a song during the Vietnam era - which was an antiwar ballad called With God on Our Side - which ends with the couplet "If God's on our side, He'll stop the next war." But the point should be because you feel you on the moral side of the equation does not allow you to act immorally. The Move.on folks don't seem to get that.
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