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Quitting a worthy fight would be great mistake.(News)

Byline: JULES CRITTENDEN

"How do you ask a man to be the last man to die for a mistake?" John Kerry once famously asked.

His question resonated in the Vietnam-era 1970s, when a war of communist expansion had come to be viewed as a liberation struggle, and America's involvement on the supposed wrong side of that was seen as a colossal, deadly mistake. It has resonated again today, as the war in Iraq came to be viewed by some parties as one more great big American mistake.

The fact is in war, there are mistakes, and men die because of them. These are not the kind of mistakes Kerry was refering to, or that the anti-war faction talks about today. These are missteps in ...

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