Apparently, former Costa Rican President Oscar Arias has been making a lot of friends in public appearances across the country. Not.
The death rate from battlefield wounds has remained constant for 150 years, with one of five wounded soldiers dying, half from profuse bleeding. New battlefield medical techniques aim to change all that. These range from bandages and clotting agents that quickly stop bleeding to mobile surgical teams which operate on the most severely wounded in the field, evacuating them when they are stabilized. Some of these techniques came about in response to the demands of inner-city trauma centers. Others were developed in the laboratory but will eventually come to an emergency room near you. A must read.
The antiwar movement got the message: it was too confrontational, too weird, too anti-American, too scattered in its message, too dependent on purveyors of fringe ideologies like ANSWER. Voila! A new antiwar movement!
. . . representatives of about 50 groups gathered at the Washington office of People for the American Way . . . For nearly a month in private conversations, they say they had been sharing their concerns that Answer's oratory was too anti-Israel, too angry. . . . "Answer is a radical left group and not very mainstream in terms of its image," said David Cortright, a veteran of the Vietnam War and the protests against it . . . They decided that afternoon to form a new coalition that would operate apart from Answer. They named it United for Peace and Justice. It immediately began planning small actions for December and January in various cities, and a large rally in New York City on Feb. 15, where speakers would be told that their remarks had to be about the war and nothing else.Perhaps now we'll find out if the antiwar movement actually has some good arguments against the war. They won't be such easy targets for ridicule, and that's all to the good.
Later that same October day, eight people from the meeting went out for dinner. . . . those eight agreed to create another group, calling this one Win Without War. To join, said Mr. Pariser of MoveOn, one of those attending, organizations had to explicitly sign on to the notion of being patriotic and taking a "reasonable" stance toward a conflict with Iraq, which at that time meant the continuation of weapons inspections.
. . . United for Peace said it supported nonviolent civil disobedience, while Win Without War said it did not. But as the general shift in strategy swept the peace movement over last weekend, United for Peace and Justice scaled back its advocacy of civil disobedience.
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