According to former Secretary of State Colin Powell in a statement on November 29, the situation in Iraq is now severe enough to qualify as a civil war. Thomas Jefferson hated war of all kinds, but he considered civil war the worst. He wrote to Edmund Randolph in 1783:
“I know no danger so dreadful and so probable as that of internal contests.”
If Jefferson were alive today, he would likely be extremely concerned about what is going on in Iraq, both because he disliked war and because he believed that the United States should do its best to avoid foreign entanglements. The Iraq war would be a nightmare for Jefferson, especially since one could argue that it is U.S. involvement in Iraqi affairs that has led to the start of the civil war there.
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