I’ll conclude with one more very good point Draper makes. Sometimes people calculating the benefits of going to war include the expected benefits to future generations. For example, those who today continue to support the Gulf War often claim that Kuwaitis born in the 21st century are better off because of the invasion. Draper counters this by noting that the Kuwaitis who were in fact born in the 21st century are almost certainly different people from those who would have been born had there been no Gulf War; and, so long as the latter group of people “[would have] benefited substantially from life, they would have reason to be glad that there was no attempt to drive Iraq out of Kuwait.”