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The Bush Crusade: A Military Analysis

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In the present we are confronted with the daunting task of figuring out how to deal with the terrible aftermath of the Bush Crusade. Difficult strategic decisions will have to be made about how to resolve the wars in
Afghanistan and Iraq. We must give up our crusading idealism in order to make good decisions. We must admit that there will probably be no good short-term outcome in these conflicts. The human task is not to create a perfect world. Only idealistic crusaders believe that we can perfect the world. Rather, human beings can only mitigate and ameliorate. We should admit our finitude, ask for aid and forgiveness, and endeavor to uphold those principles of justice that we find in the just war

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