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I Think If You're Going To Master Policy, Especially World Affairs, You've Got To Know History.

The Indecisiveness And Ambivalence So Devastatingly Described By Both Of Obama's Previous Secretaries Of Defense, Leon Panetta And Bob Gates, Are Already Beginning To Characterize The Syria Campaign.

In The Middle Ages People Took Potions For Their Ailments. In The 19th Century They Took Snake Oil. Citizens Of Today's Shiny, Technological Age Are Too Modern For That. They Take Antioxidants And Extract Of Cactus Instead.

Highfalutin Moral Principles Are Impossible Guides To Foreign Policy. At Worst, They Reflect Hypocrisy; At Best, Extreme Naivete.

Americans Are Not Intrinsically Imperial, But We Ended Up Dominant By Default: Europe Disappeared After The Second World War, The Soviet Union Disappeared In 1991, So Here We Are.