Chaos In Iraq: ‘Of Criminal, Moral, Political & Metaphysical Guilt’

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“In what sense can the average American be held accountable for the chaos of Iraq?,” James Reston Jr. asks this pertinent question in the USA Today.

“Between those who manage the war in Washington and those who fight it in Iraq, the American people enjoy a safe middle ground. The country is both at war and not at war. The war machine in Washington hums along as it did in other great international conflicts. U.S. troops fight as vicious a war abroad as they have ever fought.

“But at home, there is no sacrifice, no serious deprivations, no mobilization of youth. Life goes on pretty much as normal.

“The philosophers tell us that there are four types of responsibility for which an individual and a society can be held to account for aggressive or unprovoked war…

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In this context I came across another interesting write-up “How the Press Can Prevent Another Iraq” by Dan Froomkin at the Nieman Foundation website.

“Journalists, and through us the public, have a grave responsibility to not be complicit in another march to war on false pretenses. So what lessons should we have learned from Iraq?…”

Please click here to read the piece…