As many people have chronicled, the decision to fight in Vietnam was a years-long accretion of step-by-step choices, each of which could be rationalized at the time. Invading Iraq was an unforced, unnecessary decision to risk everything on a 'war of choice' whose costs we are still paying.
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Nationality: American Type: Journalist Born: August 2, 1949 |
“If you were the only suspect in a senseless bloodbath, would you be standing the the horror section?”