Mission unlimited.(The Mission: Waging War and Keeping the Peace with America's Military)(Book Review)
American Prospect, The, October, 2003 by Kotkin, Stephen
THE MISSION: WAGING WAR AND KEEPING THE PEACE WITH AMERICA'S MILITARY BY DANA PRIEST * W. W. NORTON & COMPANY * 384 PAGES * $26.95
A PRINCIPAL DEFICIENCY OF THE ARGUMENT against the Iraq War was that the war's opponents, like the first Bush administration, would have left a brutal tyranny in power. Who wanted to side with Saddam Hussein? A crucial shortcoming of the pro-war argument was that the United States was unprepared to handle the challenges of a war's aftermath. Why topple a contained dictator only to create further misery and instability, followed by the ...
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