@CK_MacLeod I grant you that on more popular level, much of anti-war left overstated possibility of quick catastrophe (as against slow one)
@CK_MacLeod So even in 2003 there was good reason to think USA couldn't impose long lasting military solution on region.
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@HeerJeet we did not yet know that Afghanistan would prove so difficult; we believed we had a chance this time to get things right...Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@HeerJeet ... that MENA would democratize, for our own safety it had to, and after the Cold War, before the '00s, we believed in ourselves -
@CK_MacLeod I never shared faith in either the wisdom of Western policy in Middle East nor efficacy of USA military power in region.
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@HeerJeet now we believe hardly in anything at all, certainly not in ourselves, maybe for good reasons - someday we'll want or need to again -
@CK_MacLeod But I don't think "belief in ourselves" is key to success. This is about resources USA can reasonably expend, not willpower. - Show replies
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