Writer, former Army infantry officer, Mets, Caps. Author of "The Prisoner in His Palace: Saddam Hussein, His American Guards, and What History Leaves Unsaid."
Aug 17, 2021 • 9 tweets • 4 min read
THREAD: I am finding it increasingly maddening to watch former generals and policy-makers, whose fingerprints are all over twenty years of failure in AFG that led to this predictable outcome, pontificating on TV without an ounce of humility or contrition.
And having the gall to lecture us as if we are just now learning some hard lessons about what U.S. power can achieve. I remember a paper I wrote at @SAISHopkins
IN 2009!!!! - as a lowly grad student (and former junior Army infantry officer) that laid out the parallels with
