foibles of the reconstruction
Mark Kleiman posts some interesting and obviously well-informed musings about how profoundly misguided that planning for the occupation was. If I've got the math right, this suggests that we needed four times as many troops on the ground than we've had.
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“It was fortunate that so few men acted according to moral principle, because it was so easy to get principles wrong, and a determined person acting on mistaken principles could really do some damage." - Larissa MacFarquhar
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