They Get Letters

Some people are so smart that they skip right past the obvious because it's more stimulating to quibble over details. I had to offer some perspective.

This thread is fascinating. There's obviously a lot of well spoken people laying forth their political poetry.

I find it interesting that this is even a topic of debate. Everyone is writing from their insulated cocoons, debating details of law and the simple truth of the matter is that over a million Iraqis, who had nothing to do with 9/11, with WMD's, or terrorism, are.. dead.. as a direct result of what is essentially a war of choice.

It's silly to drill down into the details. I was annoyed at all the responses to the Slate "why were were wrong" article. It all sounds to me like an academic case study on a fictional event. It's not. Over a million people, with hopes and dreams, with families and friends.. are dead.

Anyone who supported the invasion in any sense, and who holds a position of offering opinion on politics or foreign affairs should be self-shamed into finding another line of work. You should spend the rest of your days thinking about the dead, instead of debating if John Woo was right.

But that's not how Americans do things. We're so insulated from realities of what other's lives are like that we just offer up a "why I was wrong" excuse, and then think that somehow they should offer up an opinion on "where we go from here".

It's really sad. I don't think GG should be arguing the points of McArdle and Drezner. He should be asking them where they get off writing anything ever again.

If I ever wrote a piece of software that got a patient killed, I'd never code another thing again. I just couldn't do it.

And trust me.. it has happened before. For example, every hospital system has software that cross references drug interactions and dosages. People have died as a result of bad logic or design.