August 27, 2007
Wish-I'd-said-that Dep't
Posted by
Mark Kleiman
Hilzoy sums up the basic goofiness of the humanitarian argument for supporting the endless "surge":
Suppose that someone asked you whether you thought preventing genocide was a good reason to keep our army in Iraq. "Of course not," you'd say. "That would only make things worse. That's like asking whether my I care enough about global warming to swap my Prius for a Hummer."
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