Afghanistan, and Two Tormented Men
October 4th, 2009
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Posted in: Afghanistan, Iraq, United States
Tags: "Exit Strategy", "Lessons in Disaster", Afghanistan, al-Qaida, Colin Powell, Counterinsurgency Strategy, General McCrystal, Gordon Goldstein, Iraq, McGeorge Bundy, President Barack H. Obama, President George W. Bush, President John F. Kennedy, Taliban, United States, Vietnam
Major crises of each generation create heroes and villains related to them. This is true for all nations. One of the recent trends inside the United States, when facing the crisis du jour, is to examine how leaders who faced similar crises in the past behaved; what mistakes they made, and why they made those mistakes; [...]