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Lessons in the limits of force.

Publication: National Catholic Reporter
Publication Date: 06-MAY-05 		Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: Lessons in the limits of force.(EDITORIALS)

Article Excerpt
Two anniversaries--the end of the war in Vietnam and the revelation of prisoner abuse in Abu Ghraib, Iraq--collided in April. They should serve to remind us that military adventures rarely go according to plan and that in carrying out those misadventures we often become the evil we say we're fighting.

Thirty years ago, the United States was forced to free Vietnam after 10 years and between 2 million and 3 million Vietnamese deaths and the loss of 58,000 American lives. We lost the war, and we lost a lot more of our soul back home. It was a conflict...

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