Maggie's Farm

In complaining that those who go to war are engaging in a false dichotomy between good and evil, the protesters are themselves setting up a false choice. No one advocating war with Iraq or Afghanistan claimed that we were entirely pure and they entirely evil. The contention was that the balance of good vs. evil was sufficiently in our favor - a premise trivially easy to show. (I agree that wisdom is a separate issue - but justification was clear).

Whenever someone brings up that there are no black-and-whites, only shades of gray, they are trying to talk you into choosing a darker gray (they would otherwise appeal to your moral judgment). Not all grays are the same; pretending they are is either blind or dishonest. Relying on the rather trivial truth that no one is entirely good or entirely evil, they strain at gnats and swallow camels.