I read those as well. I am pulling from both the blogs and my husband's own experiences in Iraq. There is a lot of bad shit going on over there. Tons of it in fact. However - there is also a lot of good.
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To reconstitute political life in a state presupposes a good man, whereas to have recourse to violence in order to make onceself prince in a republic supposes a bad man. Hence very rarely will there be a good man ready to use bad methods in order to make himself prince, though with a good end in view. Nor will any reasonable man blame him for taking any action, however extraordinary, which may be of servince in the organizing of a kingdom or the constituing of a republic. It is a sound maxim that reprehensible actions may be justified by their effects, and that when the effect is good, it always justifies the action. For it is the man who uses violence to spoil things, not the man who uses it to mend them, that is blameworthy.
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We will have to wait and see what the outcome of this is. However, I suspect that early America dealt w/ many of the same problems as Iraq. Different but still the same.