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# This Isn’t Morally Easy
- URL: https://www.dashhouse.com/200337this-isnt-morally-easy-html/
- Published: 2003-03-07T03:28:39.000Z
- Updated: 2022-08-15T15:44:07.000Z
- Author: Darryl Dash
- Tags: Blog, Uncategorized, #DashHouseCom, #wp

[Paul Wells](http://www.nationalpost.com/commentary/pwells.html?ref=dashhouse.com) asks a great question in the [National Post](http://www.nationalpost.com/commentary/story.html?id=1879B04B-0539-4CF8-9C9D-8E6E586660C9&ref=dashhouse.com): “Am I alone in thinking this \[the issue of war against Iraq\] isn’t morally easy?” “You’d swear nobody had thought this issue through,” he writes. He argues that it would be a delight for either side to admit what seems to be obvious in the other side’s position. This is far from being neatly wrapped.

> My own position on Iraq is equally unsatisfactory. I think Saddam is a monster who is killing more of his civilian population every year than will die in the war. I am apalled at “peace activists” who wash their hands of that slaughter. My hunch, no more than a hunch, is that war will be mercifully short when it comes. But the aftermath will last forever and it’s a Pandora’s box… It looks like there’s going to be a war. I am surrounded by people who think it’s an easy moral question. I feel lonely.

One of the most thoughtful commentaries I’ve read on this issue.