Nov
2nd
2009
Mon
2nd
2009
Americans have never bothered to understand how, exactly, [the Cold War] ended. Rather than appreciating its complexity, not to mention the element of chance, we credited ourselves with unambiguous victory. Without over-stretching the point, it can be argued that it was a straight line from this mythologized history to America’s misadventure in Iraq.
— Michael Meyer, communications director for the U.N. secretary general, in The Gipper or the Guard? (N.Y. Times)
