Out of My Mind

Well, the harm's been done and therefor it's our responsibility to make good on our errors -- not that this administration would do that, being too busy setting up bases, taking over the country's oil industry and rigging elections -- like here! -- and praying ( :) ) that the country really doesn't turn into an Islamofascist theocracy like you know where.

But vindication after the fact doesn't always help. It's just too late in the game for ethical clarity on this issue. Once you've gone and invaded a country and destabilized it to the point of pandemic violence, you lose any chance of washing your hands of it. The German social thinker Max Weber called this the first lesson of an "ethics of responsibility": When you create a mess, any quest for an immediate and clear-cut solution vanishes.

Couldn't put it much better myself if I had the time.

Do read the whole piece.