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The tragedy of fighting 'good wars'

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Post by confuzzled dude Sun Sep 01, 2013 9:54 pm

"Where were the smiles, the flowers? We’d expected, in a modest way, to be greeted as liberators."

"The United States doesn’t fight for land, resources, hatred, revenge, tribute, religious conversion — the usual stuff. Along with the occasional barrel of oil, we fight for virtue."

"Strangely enough, though, we keep losing. Since World War II, we have failed to win any land war that lasted more than a week: Korea (a stalemate), Vietnam, little ones like Lebanon and Somalia, bigger ones like Iraq and Afghanistan. Ah, but these were all intended to be good wars, saving people from themselves. "

http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/us-action-in-syria-another-war-for-virtue/2013/09/01/a91b8bcc-1327-11e3-a100-66fa8fd9a50c_story.html?hpid=z5

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Post by MaxEntropy_Man Mon Sep 02, 2013 10:38 am

i agree with most of this except about the virtuous part. more later.
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Post by confuzzled dude Mon Sep 02, 2013 5:55 pm

MaxEntropy_Man wrote:i agree with most of this except about the virtuous part. more later.
Agreed. Growing up , I always viewed them (from what I read) as America's attempt to reassert their dominance over the world but for Americans these wars were fought for a good cause [I guess].

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