The Effect Of That Is To Poison

There Are Some Things That Should Not Be Leaked Without Authorization.

The Effect Of That Is To Poison The Flow Of Information To The President Himself And To Create A Situation Where A President Can Be Almost, To Use A Metaphor, Psychotically Divorced From The Realities In Which He Is Acting.

It's Naive And Even Irresponsible For A Grownup Today To Get Her Or His Information About Foreign Policy And War And Peace Exclusively From The Administration In Power. It's Essential To Have Other Sources Of Information, To Check Those Against One's Own Common Sense, And To Form Your Own Judgment As To Whether We Ought To Go To Or Persist In War.

The Courage We Need Is Not The Fortitude To Be Obedient In The Service Of An Unjust War, To Help Conceal Lies, To Do Our Job For A Boss Who Has Usurped Power And Is Acting As An Outlaw Government. It Is The Courage At Last To Face Honestly The Truth And Reality Of What We Are Doing In The World And Act Responsibly To Change It.

Only We, The Public, Can Force Our Representatives To Reverse Their Abdication Of The War Powers That The Constitution Gives Exclusively To The Congress.