Arthur Schlesinger Criticizes Bush on Civil Liberties
Historian Arthur Schlesinger recently spoke at Swarthmore College:
Schlesinger, 86, said he believed that more debate was needed before the United States commits American lives to fighting on foreign soil, and that public dissent is essential to democracy.
"Going to war does not abrogate our freedoms of conscience, speech and thought," the prize-winning author and former foreign-policy adviser told those who attended the first in a series of American history lectures Tuesday.
"We have no obligation to bow down before an imperial presidency," he said.
[link via Instapundit.]
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