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Strategic Errors of Monumental Proportions
 
By Lt. General WILLIAM E. ODOM (US Army Ret.)
 
Text of testimony before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee,18 January 2007

 

I discovered that the regimes that received the least US direct fiscal support had the most success against the insurgents. Providing funding and forces to give an embattled regime more "time" to gain adequate strength is like asking a drunk to drink more whiskey in order to sober up.

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