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nation, from the president on down, in military victory; debased behavior is the work of a few, we are told.
“Among the corrosive lies a nation at war tells itself is that the glory - the lofty goals announced beforehand, the victories, the liberation of the oppressed - belongs to the country as a whole,” writes Philip Kennicott, a staff writer for The Washington Post.
“But the failure - the accidents, the uncounted civilian dead, the crimes and atrocities - is always the exceptional... We live in a democracy. Every errant smart bomb, every dead civilian, every sodomized prisoner, is ours.”
And so, tragically, may be the wrath we have provoked.
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