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The ethical case against withdrawal from Iraq: a matter urgently to consider.(AT WAR)
DEBATE over whether America should withdraw from Iraq has turned primarily on strategic questions. But one need not be a utopian--or, more dreaded still, a "Wilsonian"--to see that not all foreign-policy questions are strategic. Almost everyone, conservative or liberal, believes that ethical claims restrict to one degree or another the means by which a government may pursue its foreign-policy ends. (If not, the massive and indiscriminate slaughter of civilians would be morally permissible in the pursuit even of non-vital interests.) There may also be cases--though this is more controversial--in which ethical claims are sufficient in their own right to decide a policy.
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