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Posted By populist 9 months ago in Political NewsThe larger lesson the U.S. should take – and one we just might be ready to absorb in financially straitened circumstances – is that trying to mold other countries to fit some Western-liberal version of an ideal democracy with a vibrant civil society is a fool’s errand.
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In Gulf War 1, we learned the lesson of the VietNam war: know your objective, use overwhelming force to achieve it, then get out. In the Iraq war, we are re-learning the lesson of the Vietnam war.
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