Posted by zeugma on June 22, 2006, at 17:52:44
In reply to Re: Neccessary Wars, posted by AuntieMel on June 14, 2006, at 16:50:50
Sometimes people find themselves in a war - and can't figure out why. Those people need to, in their own minds, find that meaning, that cause.>>
I find that it is profound comments like these that make sense of the news for me.
From today's N.Y. Times:
Sen. Joseph Lieberman, leading Democratic supporter of the war:
"The war to remove Saddam Hussein may have been a war of choice, but it now a war of necessity. We must win it."
That sentence is rather ominous, don't you think?
Wars of choice become wars of necessity when disaster is looming.
But I would say that wars of choice lead inevitably to disaster, simply because a war of choice is, for moral and strategic reasons, always the wrong choice. A war of choice is, by definition, the wrong choice.
-z
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