That course not another misguided war of choice is the best way America can help bring Venezuela back to prosperity and freedom.
Despite the abject failure of America's misguided war on drugs -- with the hundreds of billions spent on it failing to curtail drug use -- Clinton decided that another billion or so directed to Colombia would do the trick.
This has got to be the biggest piece of idiocy in the entire misguided War On Weed, but it'll be the easiest to change.
Young Taxliil's radicalization, too, is a function of both his association with militant clerics and America's misguided "war on terror".
Some of us served in that horrendous and misguided war; some of us escaped to Canada or left for other countries to avoid military service, which, at that time, was not voluntary.
Does he wonder what his dad, who spoke out against the futility of an earlier misguided war, would think of his assertion that President Obama's move to end the Iraq war represented an "astonishing failure"?
In addition to the human price, there's the enormous financial price tag for that misguided war -- billions of dollars, much of it squandered, wasted, or lost -- and billions more will be spent in years to come as we continue caring for those legions of veterans who will require a lifetime of medical and psychological support.
And, while the Conservatives continue to wallow directionless and Labour is sucked into the violent, messy aftermath of a misguided war, Charles Kennedy's party has (mostly) seemed a model of cohesiveness.
When we finally find a way out of the misguided war in Iraq, perhaps our government will see fit to reappropriate some of the money allocated to that venture to help avert horrific human disasters like the one afflicting the children of Niger.
But with violence continuing on the ground in Iraq and no exit strategy, it is reasonable to ask, How many generations of young Americans will be expected to pay the price of this misguided war?
