Two Very Different Attitudes to War

Two Very Different Attitudes to War
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I write at what we hope is near the end of a war in Iraq but in the midst of a war in Afghanistan whose likely outcome no one can predict; both these wars relate to the attack on the United States of September 11, 2001. Before that there was war in Somalia, and before that Vietnam, and before that Korea, and before that the two World Wars, and before that (for Britain) the Boer War, and before that (for the United States) the Civil War, and before that the Revolutionary War (I understand that Brits prefer to call it the War of Independence). Our history is a history of warfare, though these wars are undertaken for varying reasons and in varying ways...