TORONTO—A few short years ago, many Canadians thought Iraq the "bad" war and Afghanistan the "good" war (is any war good?). Barack Obama echoed this sentiment in his successful presidential campaign. Paradoxically, the upshot of George Bush's "unjust" war, launched unilaterally under false pretences and without United Nations sanction, appears on the whole positive. Saddam Hussein had initiated attacks against five regional neighbours, paid families handsomely for their children's "martyrdom" as suicide bombers, and filled unmarked graves with thousands upon thousands of innocents. Iraqis are still struggling but they are more or less managing their own affairs, not threatening anyone in the region, and optimistic about the future.

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