Originally published at: Robert Koehler: Blowing Out the Candles in Iraq – Progressive Dreamers
Published originally at Common Dreams on March 23, 2023 under Creative Commons CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 license I read the news—invasion of Iraq! twentieth anniversary!—and struggle to transcend the abstraction of my remorse. A million killed? Half a million? The mortality stats vary depending on the source’s politics. But beyond the numbers looms an indifference that…