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When their policies appear to be failing, politicians often argue that it will take time before a definitive assessment is possible. They rarely acknowledge any error of judgment or execution and instead argue that history will recognize their wisdom and foresight.
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Thomas Ricks, Fiasco: The American Military Adventure in Iraq (New York: Penguin Press, 2006).
Kevin Phillips, American Theocracy: The Peril and Politics of Radical Religion, Oil, and Borrowed Money in the 21st Century (New York: Viking, 2006), p. 69.
See for instance George Packer’s The Assassins’ Gate: America in Iraq (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2006).
H. Field Haviland Jr., The Formulation and Administration of United States Foreign Policy (Washington, D.C.: Brookings Institution, 1960), p. v.
Robert Ellsworth Elder, The Policy Machine (New York: Syracuse University Press, 1960).
Ron Suskind, The One Percent Doctrine: Deep Inside America’s Pursuit of Its Enemies Since 9/11 (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2006), p. 295.
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Jett, D.C. (2008). What’s Changed and Why It’s Failing. In: Why American Foreign Policy Fails. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230611771_2
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