"Not one life is worth it to remove Saddam"

“Not one life is worth it to remove Saddam”

You’ve heard that one from the Left, many times, arguing that America only has base motives and depraved execution, forgetting to compare that to the hundreds of thousands cruelly murdered by Saddam and the thugs we face since. Or you may have heard that from self-regarding “realists”, whose timidity at executing a finale to Saddam in 1991 or their betrayal of Kurds and Shia fed to the slaughter is the achievement of what a real realist must recognize as real ineptitude and amorality.

Well, apparently the Arab League felt differently. According to an Al-Arabiya documentary (discussed at CaptainsQuarters) the Arab League rejected a deal for Saddam to go into exile in order to avoid the U.S. invasion. Apparently, to the Arab League "morality" it was worth many lives to remove Saddam. The loss of Iraqi and American lives is more precious than their cooperation in peacefully deposing one of their fellow despots. You can hear them now: “Hey, us despots have to hang tough together, or we might be next, and the people be damned, right?” That is the company kept by the American Left and so-called “realists”.