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Originally Posted by tony20009
You may recall a recent war that was promoted and fought from the moral high ground. I think "Iraqi freedom" was the call. I gotta tell you, that was some mighty costly moral high ground, but I guess Iraqis are now free.
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I guess the coalition needed to stand on the moral high ground to be able to see over the top of all the 1.4m dead Iraqis. But history is written by the victors and the oil is safe, which was the whole point. Bad luck for the Syrians that they don't have any oil worth fighting for.
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Originally Posted by tony20009
I'm using that just as an example to illustrate the cost -- time, money, lives, etc. -- of the moral high ground. I didn't say that as a vehicle for taking this down a political route; I expressly want to avoid the political aspect of it.
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Claiming the moral high ground is often just a smug way of saying I'm right and you are wrong.