Jim Henley on the newest rationale for the war:
- It is high time we recognize the grammatical inversion that has seized our Imperial Wing. While they produce sentences of the form “I support the War for the sake of this reason,” the truer template is “I support this reason for the sake of the War.”
The Libertarian Jackass on the favorite excuse for the war:
- I hate to be the one to point out the obvious (actually, scratch that, I love it!) but all humans act under conditions of imperfect information and uncertainty. If there was perfect information and certainty in human action, humans simply would not need to choose and act. They would be like robots on a path. The existence of “imperfect information” certainly does not justify the initiation of force. If it did, we certainly would not have advanced human civilization.
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