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Wednesday, April 30, 2014

Defense Policy Lessons from the W. Bush Era

Shaping Things to Come: America's Role (Simon Serfaty) from the National Interest
"Armed with America’s arsenal of unmatched capabilities, Bush went to Afghanistan the way Bill Gates would go to McDonald’s: with too much money for the place and too little taste for the food. And then, “because Afghanistan wasn’t enough . . . to make a point that we’re not going to live in this world that they want for us,” as Henry Kissinger reportedly said, and as Vice President Dick Cheney clearly believed, the war moved on to a new and even more disastrous theater."

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