Miscalculation (II)
As Fawaziah al-Bakr, a Saudi promoter of educational change and women’s rights, said, “There is no question that the US has lost morally because of the war. Even if you like the people and the culture of the United States, you can’t defend it.”
This summer’s wars of miscalculation will cast a long shadow down the decades to come to the detriment of this county’s national interests. ~H.D.S. Greenway
What remains somewhat puzzling to me is how willing so many Americans, pundits and ordinary citizens alike, have been to give the war in Lebanon more credit and approval than just about any other group of people. Our national reputation has been greatly sullied and marred by support for this war. Besides the injustices of the Lebanon war, it simply never made sense to me how American interests were served by it. Then again, I remain unclear on how invading and occupying Iraq have done anything but damage our country, its armed forces and its place in the world.
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