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That was the first opportunity to take the win, end the war, and to genuinely have improved our national security. But Bush appears to have gotten greedy and wanted more. One year later he went to war with Iraq over spurious claims they posed an existential threat to America with non-existent weapons of mass destruction and opened the floodgates of opposition to Iran and North Korea which has resulted in a near-permanent state of hostility between our countries.
These decisions gave pre-eminence to a foreign policy school of thought which prioritized choosing military power as the tool of choice to solve any international challenge. Any discussion that does not start and end with the military option is rarely given serious consideration. That is now on embarrassing display as we near the final hour of the Afghan war. Yet publicly virtually every president and senior general hid these truths and continued the war.
The reality on the ground finally — as it always eventually does — tore through decades of lies and bad policy to impose itself on the world through the simultaneous collapse of the Afghan government and the final assault by the Taliban military in mid-August. That may yet happen, but reality has done nothing to dampen enthusiasm for military power by some in Washington. But most illustrative of the problem in Washington is the former national security adviser HR McMaster.
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