Aggressors Aren't Seeking to Do the 'Right Thing'
People seeking to do the right thing would not launch an illegal war of aggression.
Stephen Wertheim comments on a passage from Leffler’s book on the Iraq war:
Quite something write a book about the Iraq War and conclude that “insufficient prudence” was the problem. One wonders if Russian historians in twenty years will say the same of Putin’s aggression in Ukraine.
There is so much wrong in this brief excerpt from the book that I am not sure where to begin. Let’s start with the claim that “tragedy occurs when earnest people and responsible officials seek to do the right thing,” which cannot plausibly describe what happened in the run-up to the invasion of Iraq. People seeking to do the right thing would not launch an illegal war of aggression.