March 21, 2003
Foreigners' Antiwar Protests in Baghdad
For several weeks, dozens of foreigners have stationed themselves outside power plants in Iraq, hoping to stop the United States from starting a war. Unlike the many foreigners who were rounded up by Iraqi forces and held at military bases and other sites during the Persian Gulf war, these "human shields" are in Iraq voluntarily and say they are willing to die. Are they effectively drawing attention to their antiwar cause, or are they dupes of Saddam Hussein?
Jean Bethke Elshtain,
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