The Iraq war is over.
Dec. 15th, 2011 06:16 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
xiphiasThis deserves celebration, but it's hard to feel celebratory about it. I suppose some good was done, in that Saddam Hussein was gotten rid of, but the cost was far too high -- not just in money and lives, but in honor, international respect, and trust.
It's hard to call it a victory. Or a loss. It's just the end of a mistake.
Which is better than continuing a mistake, anyway.
It's hard to call it a victory. Or a loss. It's just the end of a mistake.
Which is better than continuing a mistake, anyway.
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Date: 2011-12-15 01:29 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2011-12-15 03:45 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2011-12-15 06:13 pm (UTC)It's the front page of the New York Times.
It's a small sidebar on USA Today.
It's not on the headline of the Boston Herald at all.