hell’s handmaiden

I’ve been thinking a lot about war. And I’ve been think a lot about a particular justification for the war in Iraq. More precisely, I suppose, it is a justification for staying in Iraq. That justification takes several forms grouped in two primary classes.

• If we leave, it will get worse.
• We broke it, we bought it, we fix it.

Here is the question: Does it really make sense to justify war as a kind of altruism?

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