Stop and rest awhile as the caravan moves on
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by nadezhda
Indeed! One of my pet peeves is that I think the Bush/Rumsfeld/Wolfowitz process has breached some basic principles that make the military-civilian social contract work. We certainly broke the social contract in Vietnam, and we've been making similar mistakes in Iraq (though certainly differenet in the specifics). The Powell Doctrine was supposed to help address that -- essentially it articulates the Clauswitzian division of labor. In Iraq they ignored it without taking care that what replaced it addressed the problems the Powell Doctrine was designed to address.
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chez Nadezhda