... the moral costs of withdrawal are enormous
So, when Jim Baker and Lee Hamilton offer up a way to start sharing the moral weight of the conflict, they don't get followed on it ...
Clearly, the ethics of nation building doesn't include everything and forever, right?
It is (and was) a poor conception of what needed to be done that leaves so many groping, with no way out (either that or those still deeply wedded to some odd notion of "Victory" or "winning"). Had the rhetoric for the effort been properly set up at the start, with a vision that not everything could be achieved by military force, it wouldn't be quite as difficult to change course, when needed or as needed.
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