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When should the United States go to war? It is arguably the most important foreign policy question facing any president, and Richard Haass -- a member of the National Security Council staff for the first President Bush and the director of policy planning in the State Department for Bush II... read more
“In normal times, but even more so amid crises, it is never enough to do the right thing”
“Sometimes it is better to try and come up short than not to try at all”
“Most of my regrets stem from what I have failed to say or do, not from what I've actually done”
“Planning is never better than the assumptions fed into it”
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