Bathos Alert
Good Friday morning. WEST WING READING - “How Wars End: Why We Always Fight the Last Battle - A History of American Intervention from World War I to Afghanistan,” by Gideon Rose, editor of Foreign Affairs magazine - dedicated “To the victims of bad planning”: “[W]ars are difficult to close out even when they are started well, and mistakes at the beginning complicate the job exponentially … At best, Afghanistan could become another Iraq, with strong late innings gaining the United States the opportunity to draw down its forces gradually while leaving behind something better than the status quo ante. …. [T]he war will go down as one more operation crippled from birth by a failure to deploy military resources in support of a serious strategy for durable political success.” $17.82 on Amazon.
(Source: politico.com)
