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Bush and Obama bear main responsibility for millions of lives lost, mass destruction, unspeakable human misery, daily violence including rape, murder and torture, and Washington's shocking indifference to extreme suffering.
After over a decade, it's also America's longest war. It's unwinnable. Pentagon, administration, and Congressional officials know it. Yet no end of conflict's planned, nor is ending an illegal occupation as Afghans demand immediately.
"2. At what cost?"
Keller claimed overthrowing Gaddafi was right and easy. Ousting Assad is also just but tough. He's dead wrong on both counts.
Putting "a price on freedom" demands not overspending, he claims. Doing so may force Washington "to contract its global posture" like Britain and other empires had to do.
In other words, winning wars at the right price advance America's imperium. Counterproductive ones should be avoided. Keller ignored rule of law principles, right and wrong, and other issues mattering most. It was typical NYT journalism.
"3. Or what?"
What if alternate strategies short of war fail? "The ultimate 'or what' question about Iran is, if sanctions and threats fail, could we live with a nuclear Iran?"
Again, Keller knows or should that Iran threatens no one. It hasn't attacked another country in over 200 years, and US intelligence, Mossad, and IAEA inspectors find no evidence whatever of a nuclear weapons program or intention to have one.
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