A cautionary note about occupying Iraq (fifty years in advance)

“We take, and must continue to take, morally hazardous actions to preserve our civilization. We must exercise our power. But we ought neither to believe that a nation is capable of perfect disinterestedness in its exercise, nor become complacent about particular degrees of interest and passion which corrupt the justice by which the exercise of power is legitimized.”
–Reinhold Niebuhr, The Irony of American History (1952)

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