... the extension of democracy throughout the world carries the seeds (if by no means the certainty) of mass murder.
The Chronicle: 9/17/2004: Delving Into Democracy's Shadows

The irrationality of disgust suggests it is unreliable as a source of moral insight. There may be good arguments against gay marriage, partial-birth abortions and human cloning, but the fact that some people find such acts to be disgusting should carry no weight.
Guardian Unlimited | Life | To urgh is human: "The irrationality of disgust suggests it is unreliable as a source of moral insight. There may be good arguments against gay marriage, partial-birth abortions and human cloning, but the fact that some people find such acts to be disgusting should carry no weight"

"I had a one-in-four-thousand chance of dying," Kravinsky says. "But my recipient had a certain death facing her. I'd be valuing my life at four thousand times hers if I let consideration of mortality sway me." The young woman who got Kravinsky's kidney, a twenty-nine-year-old African-American, tells Parker, "It was so surreal. You're going about your life, and then you get this phone call.... It was such an overwhelming thing, such an awesome thing, I wanted to meditate on it on my own." When Kravinsky went home, four days after his kidney was removed, Parker reports, "he was wondering if he should give away his other kidney"—and live on dialysis. [...] Through it all, Kravinsky has kept up his intense scrutiny of what makes a life worth living. "It isn't that I think people are evil" for not acting altruistically, he says. "But it's a fact that our actions, in some sense our thoughts, let some people live and some people die."

There is also a brief interview with Mr. Kravinsky at CNN:
CNN.com: Kravinsky Transcript

Here is another profile for the Associated Press:
SF Gate: Zell Kravinsky

It is a nice article, but still I am a little amused by the description of China. To what extent does he really understand China?
Collision Course? by Thomas A. Metzger

A nice essay, but I'd like to read some debates on this topic.
The Hudson Review | Bruce Bawer: "Hating America "

Comparing 9/11 probe with Peal Harbor:
The coincidence prompts two thoughts:

• First, that hindsight is always warped. No matter how conveniently the pieces may seem to fit together years after the fact, it's highly improbable that either incident could have been prevented, given the circumstances before they occurred. Scapegoating is a waste of time.

• Second, that the task ahead — deterring terrorism — is enormous, as are weaknesses in U.S. intelligence-gathering. There is no quick, bureaucratic fix.
USATODAY.com - As 9/11 report arrives, remember Pearl Harbor: "déjà vu "

That said, there are real and important similarities that can illuminate our evaluations of current American policy. In fact, Iraq in some ways seems like the Vietnam War in hyperspeed.
The Chronicle: 7/9/2004: The Ghosts of War