CSPAN2 Book Discussion On The Unwinding November 17, 2013
My initial sense of why everything was imploding there was to blame the individual leaders and we know who they are. They were to blame. They were failures on the part of almost everyone in the highest positions of responsibility. But over time, iraq and afghanistan came to see more and more like a failure of american institutions and this includes the talent and good well of the country that all seem to avail nothing. And that was partly because it was an impossible job and also because the institutions that were responsible from the highest Government Agencies to the military from the media,...