Of course, by the DoD's book invading sovereign nations for no particular reason, causing between 109,032 and 1,033,000 civilian and combatant deaths (depending on how you count[1]) wasn't an "ethical failure." It was just "bad policy", based on poor intelligence.<p>[1] <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casualties_of_the_Iraq_War" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casualties_of_the_Iraq_War</a>