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The epitaph of our Sisyphean decade of two agonizing wars was written last year by then-Secretary of Defense Bob Gates: “Any future defense secretary who advises the president to send a big American land army into Asia, or into the Middle East or Africa, should have his head examined.”
-- Maureen Dowd at The New York Times
So much blood and treasure lost in that wasteland. Osama bin Laden may be assassinated, but he really did get a lot from his big 9/11 attack. What have we done to ourselves? Maybe we needed an enemy too badly.
-- Maureen Dowd at The New York Times
So much blood and treasure lost in that wasteland. Osama bin Laden may be assassinated, but he really did get a lot from his big 9/11 attack. What have we done to ourselves? Maybe we needed an enemy too badly.
