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The Corrupting Influences Of War

Wretchard has a sobering post about what we should be trying to avoid, and what many of the ringmasters in the ongoing circus in Washington may be, unwittingly, leading us to.

While it is important to punish everyone responsible for the outrages at Abu Ghraib, the only effective way to stop the corrupting influences of war is to achieve victory. Japanese tourists are welcome in Asia everywhere today because the Second World War ended in 1945. And if by contrast Palestinians hand out sweets whenever a Jewish orphanage and Old Folk's home is bombed it may be because the UN refugee camps there celebrated their 50th anniversary in 1998. If the outrages at Abu Ghraib hasten the end of war it will not have been in vain, but if they lead, as the Left most earnestly desires, to a Vietnam-like stalemate, it will be not the last but the first of many sad mileposts.

[Warning, graphic descriptions of violence]

Posted by Rand Simberg at May 08, 2004 08:47 AM
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You didn't link to Wretchard's post.

Posted by Andrea Harris at May 8, 2004 09:29 AM

D'oh!

I have now.

Posted by Rand Simberg at May 8, 2004 09:33 AM


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