“The US has not committed atrocities in Iraq that are even remotely comparable to what Saddam did.”
Kanan Makiya (1949) American orientalist
Kanan Makiya, "Kanan Makiya speaks about Iraq 5 years later...", Washington Post (March 20, 2008)
“And even if what they showed you is true, that doesn’t begin to make it right. The cause might be just, Felka, but history’s littered with atrocities committed in the name of righteousness.”
— Alastair Reynolds, book Redemption Ark
Source: Redemption Ark (2002), Chapter 38 (p. 662)
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