HAVING MADE the mistake of agreeing to “debate” the war before a college campus audience, I ought not to have expected much beyond emotional appeals from the antiwar participants. But I did, and of course, I was disappointed.

The Rev. George Regas was one of three antiwar voices, the others being the Rt. Rev. J. John Bruno, Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Los Angeles, and my colleague and friend Professor Don Will of Chapman University’s Peace Studies program. Canon Regas was by far the most impassioned of the three, though Bishop Bruno’s experience as a combat veteran gives him a unique authority on such panels. The bishop and Professor Will were concerned with matters of the intellect, but Regas went right for the heart in his opening remarks, repeatedly invoking the children of Iraq and their suffering.