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Is Hussein still worth 14 civilian lives? Three weeks ago he absolutely certainly would have been; if he's already been severed from his military, and a cleaner shot might well have opened up in the next few days, it seems possible that as of last night he was not. (It may be that his death will make Iraqis feel freer to shake off the rest of the regime, and that that will save many lives. It's quite possible that he was still worth 14 civilian lives — that seems to be the upper estimate for last night's strike — and it's certain that someone other than I is in a much better situation to make that judgment than I am. I'm mostly expressing concern here that we're sitting on an out-dated assessment because we let it creep into our epistemology.) |
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