offered as an aid to your precision......
Firstly, this writer never equated civilian deaths in war with any type of moral failure. Civilian deaths have always been a regretable part of war.
War itself cannot be either moral or immoral. Actions in war are so labled by onlookers-not combatants-and reflect a perspective.
What I did say was that war was always a political failure. It is politics by other means and only happens when the political process is exhausted and abandoned.
Now we are about to enter into a political faze of Iraq. If we can only do as well waging peace as war, then we will have a real success.
Publius