Summary: Presidential administrations change, but America’s grand strategy remains the same. Bush, Obama, Trump all employ the same failed tactics, boldly and confidently, blindly and arrogantly. We have a severe case of the victory disease. This won’t work well for us. “Those whom the gods wish to destroy they first make mad.” — Paraphrase of …
America has the victory disease. It won’t end well for us. Read More »
I like books that challenge my views, as in the saying attributed to Mark Twain “What gets us into trouble is not what we don’t know. It’s what we know for sure that just ain’t so.” So here are two recommendations of books that challenge our views, esp about the things we know for sure. The …
Summary: This is part 2 in a series looking at the Iraq War. Advice from past to the present. Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable. — Advice from Ambassador John Kenneth Galbraith in a letter to President Kennedy, dated 2 March 1962, printed in Galbraith’s Ambassador’s …
