It is warped to
commemorate America’s war dead by emphasizing the need to wage wars of
choice. Why would anyone think that this is a suitable thought for
today? One would like to think that the people most likely to support
wars of choice would have some idea to judge whether the “likely
benefits outweigh” the costs, but again and again the people that
presume that the U.S. “must” intervene somewhere have an extraordinarily
poor understanding of how great the costs of intervention will be. Iraq
war supporters, including Haass, were very sure that invading
Iraq and toppling the regime would yield enormous benefits at low cost.
They were horribly wrong, and it was fairly obvious that they were very
wrong at the time, but they were very sure of themselves and their estimates.
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