Stephen Walt tallies the human cost of US interventionism in the Middle East. Some people will inevitably misinterpret this as a strained argument for moral equivalence, but read the whole, caveat-laden post before you pass judgment. I think Walt is pretty clear that pointing out negative Muslim perceptions of American foreign policy is not the same as arguing the United States is morally culpable for, say, every death in Iraq since 2003.
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