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<blockquote data-quote="Jones" data-source="post: 639994" data-attributes="member: 4805"><p>I spent last week reading Barbara Tuchman's excellent book The March of Folly, an examination of the reasons why governments throughout history have pursued policies so clearly contrary to their own interests. It begins with the fall of Troy and works forward through the renaissance popes and England's loss of the American colonies. The final section focuses on our involvement in Vietnam in which the parallels to both Iraq and Afghanistan are crystal clear, not so much in the actual prosecution of the war but in the thought processes and faulty reasoning that led successive administrations, on both sides of the aisle, to wade ever deeper into what was so clearly a huge mistake. It's all the more compelling when you consider that Tuchman wrote this book back in 1985, and a reminder that some things never seem to change. This paragraph seemed particularly prescient:</p><p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20091128054033/http://www.mcclatchydc.com/227/story/79380.html" target="_blank">Obama plans to send 34,000 more troops</a></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Jones, post: 639994, member: 4805"] I spent last week reading Barbara Tuchman's excellent book The March of Folly, an examination of the reasons why governments throughout history have pursued policies so clearly contrary to their own interests. It begins with the fall of Troy and works forward through the renaissance popes and England's loss of the American colonies. The final section focuses on our involvement in Vietnam in which the parallels to both Iraq and Afghanistan are crystal clear, not so much in the actual prosecution of the war but in the thought processes and faulty reasoning that led successive administrations, on both sides of the aisle, to wade ever deeper into what was so clearly a huge mistake. It's all the more compelling when you consider that Tuchman wrote this book back in 1985, and a reminder that some things never seem to change. This paragraph seemed particularly prescient: [URL='https://web.archive.org/web/20091128054033/http://www.mcclatchydc.com/227/story/79380.html']Obama plans to send 34,000 more troops[/URL] [/QUOTE]
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