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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group
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To: JustTradeEm who wrote (87580)3/31/2003 9:29:28 PM
From: Dayuhan  Read Replies (1) of 281500
 

What am I missing ?

This was the clip I cited:

…nothing short of the actual outcome of the war will settle whether waging it was a good idea.

I suppose that this could be interpreted a number of ways, but it seemed to me that the author was saying that the outcome of the war will reveal whether or not it was a good idea to have the war in the first place. This is not the case: we will be able to assess whether the outcome was negative, positive, or (most likely) mixed, but we will not be able to assess the outcome relative to the possible outcomes of other courses of action.

Nitpicking, really; I do that now and then.
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