Mary Carroll

I'd like to believe that we can evolve as one commenter said. I'm not sure. Like John Horgan I teach at the college level. One of my self-designed courses is "American War in Fiction and Song." To be honest, it's a cover for an anti-war course. We look at propaganda as our way in to discussing several American wars. Like Horgan's students, mine also seem to think war is inevitable. Some of them have actually come from war-torn places like Bosnia and the Middle East. As an American born and bred, even post 9/11, I remain an optimist in that I want to believe that the good in man trumps evil. And war is evil.