Comments on: Calculating The Cost Of A Vanity War, Women And Children First http://commentsfromleftfield.com/2007/08/calculating-the-cost-of-a-vanity-war-women-and-children-first Thu, 18 Mar 2010 11:11:24 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: bastard.logic http://commentsfromleftfield.com/2007/08/calculating-the-cost-of-a-vanity-war-women-and-children-first/comment-page-1#comment-1129 bastard.logic Fri, 17 Aug 2007 22:41:19 +0000 http://commentsfromleftfield.com/2007/08/calculating-the-cost-of-a-vanity-war-women-and-children-first#comment-1129 <strong>The Tyranny of Anarchy...</strong> by matttbastard re: Hilzoy and the must-read post of the year, Kyle E. Moore provides some stiff competition for the title with a sobering, heart-wrenching post that examines the limited options for day-to-day survival many women and children face i... The Tyranny of Anarchy…

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re: Hilzoy and the must-read post of the year, Kyle E. Moore provides some stiff competition for the title with a sobering, heart-wrenching post that examines the limited options for day-to-day survival many women and children face i…

]]> By: matttbastard http://commentsfromleftfield.com/2007/08/calculating-the-cost-of-a-vanity-war-women-and-children-first/comment-page-1#comment-1123 matttbastard Fri, 17 Aug 2007 22:20:54 +0000 http://commentsfromleftfield.com/2007/08/calculating-the-cost-of-a-vanity-war-women-and-children-first#comment-1123 Thanks for putting this together, Kyle. It's an extremely important story that (much like any story primarily involving women of the brown persuasion) gets lost in the margins, overshadowed by suicide bombings and the (information) 'surge'. The West (in unwitting concert with Saddam) set Iraq on the path to cultural implosion with sanctions and expertly finished the job with the ill-begotten invasion and (horribly bungled) occupation. Now, thanks to 15 years of willful indifference and reckless endangerment, Iraq is a failed state, full stop. Heck'uva job, Mission Accomplished, etc. 'Vanity' war, indeed. I'm not religious at all, but after reading this post, I'm reminded of this passage from the Bible, Ecclesiastes 1:11: "<i>There is no remembrance of former things; neither shall there be any remembrance of things that are to come with those that shall come after.</i>" Thanks for putting this together, Kyle. It’s an extremely important story that (much like any story primarily involving women of the brown persuasion) gets lost in the margins, overshadowed by suicide bombings and the (information) ’surge’. The West (in unwitting concert with Saddam) set Iraq on the path to cultural implosion with sanctions and expertly finished the job with the ill-begotten invasion and (horribly bungled) occupation.

Now, thanks to 15 years of willful indifference and reckless endangerment, Iraq is a failed state, full stop. Heck’uva job, Mission Accomplished, etc.

‘Vanity’ war, indeed. I’m not religious at all, but after reading this post, I’m reminded of this passage from the Bible, Ecclesiastes 1:11:
“There is no remembrance of former things; neither shall there be any remembrance of things that are to come with those that shall come after.“

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