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July 11, 2003

A Future of Prolonged Hardship and Suffering

Note: this is a post recovered from my old blog, before it died of an insufficient backup. Any comments/trackbacks on it have not been brought over, but can be seen with the original. The date is that of the original posting.

Here is an explanation, in better words than I could have chosen, for why Kos and Hesiod and the like disgust me:

Similarly today, with all those who seem so to relish every new difficulty, every set-back for US forces: what they align themselves with is a future of prolonged hardship and suffering for the Iraqi people, whether via an actual rather than imagined quagmire, a ruinous civil war, or the return (out of either) of some new and ghastly political tyranny; rather than a rapid stabilization and democratization of the country, promising its inhabitants an early prospect of national normalization. That is caring more to have been right than for a decent outcome for the people of this long unfortunate country.

Frankly, I'd be less annoyed with the Left if their morality and their positions were more closely aligned.

Posted by jeff at July 11, 2003 12:00 AM

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