Authors: Leslie H. Gelb, President Emeritus and Board Senior Fellow and Anne-Marie Slaughter, Dean, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University
November 1, 2005
Atlantic Monthly
“Much that has gone wrong in Iraq could have been foreseen—and was. But Iraq is only the latest in a long line of ill-considered and ill-planned American military adventures. Time and again in recent decades the United States has made military commitments after little real debate, with hazy goals and no appetite for the inevitable setbacks.”
It’s time to stop slipping into armed conflict.
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