Iraq and Harm

See also James Rule in Dissent on Iraq and the principle of harm.

So, more than two years after the invasion, no one knows what even the immediate future will bring in terms of political evolution and human suffering. That is exactly my point. A situation marked by such deep uncertainties of good outcomes should never be the laboratory for fantastical military and political experiments of the sort America has launched. The audacity of this experiment, so much admired by Thomas L. Friedman, is a synonym for irresponsible game-playing with human lives. I hope that I and my children and theirs are never the subject of such audacious exercises from afar. And I hope that our country learns its lesson about such unilateral experimentation from this terrible adventure in Iraq.