NY Times Book Review:
Fukuyama turns on Mr Bush: “America at the Crossroads.” The dangers of growing raw ideas in an echo-chamber vacuum. Of course, these revelations were obvious to some of us. Read any of the mid ‘90’s books on the fall of the Soviet Union, you realize the military buildup of the United States was an economic challenge to the already-sinking Soviet Union, more than a military threat, and the late William Casey and the CIA were working behind the scenes to seriously tweak their internal solvency (that’s just one example of their work). We all knew pre-emption would undermine international relations, we could predict that an extended occupation would diminish the reputation of the American military (compared to the almost science-fiction efficiency in the first Gulf War), and we suspected the Iraq government-in-exile was a sham (which was really the first indication that the Administration wasn’t doing its post-military-ops planning).
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