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From Robert Kagan, Washington Post, "Whether This War Was Worth It":

To assess whether the Iraq war was worth it requires seriously posing the question: What would have happened if the Bush administration had not gone to war in March 2003? That is a missing but essential piece of the current very legitimate debate. We all know what has gone wrong since the Iraq war began, but it is not as if, in the absence of a war, everything would have gone right. Those who want to have this debate cannot simply point to the terrible toll in casualties. They have to address the question of what the alternative to war really would have meant.

Very interesting column on action in Iraq and, incidentally, writing largely about how I view things. Certainly food for thought, at the very least.

Corollary:

"On War" from Summa Theologica by St. Thomas Aquinas.

More on this later when I've had time to process the info. (In other words, duck! Essay in progress...)

OTP meme

Because coltsbane tagged me.

1. Pick your 10 favourite OTPs
2. Find pictures and post them
3. Give the name of the OTP and what fandom they're from
4. List your favourite moment between them
5. Tag 5 people from your flist to do this meme

No images because I'm at work, but here are my Top Ten OTPs, though in no particular order:

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