For Americans, one big lesson of the Iraq War should be this one: When policymakers and pundits purport to explain what the United States “needs to do” by resorting to hoary old comparisons drawn from some mythic past, don’t believe them. Their aim is to manipulate and deceive. Whatever problem you’re talking about—did someone say Iran?—it’s not simple. And the nation’s purposes, whether measured by past actions or future aspirations, do not qualify as altruistic.
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