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Whose disaster?
I think it is true that humans find it easier to understand and harshly judge small transgressions than grasp the totality of monumental acts of evil. So it is with Clinton and Bush and partly explains the attitude to the Iraq war. Is it a disaster because the war is not won, or is it a disaster because Bush commissioned the deaths of tens of thousands of innocent people? I much admire Gary Kamiya’s writing but wonder how well his summary of the lessons learned would be welcomed if they were announced by Japan and Germany as afterthoughts on the events of 1939-45.