He says we have to "shift gears mentally to consider emerging prospects of success," though "[o]f course, we cannot tell now whether these changes are permanent." He then argues as though "these changes" mean what he thinks they do and that they are, indeed, permanent.
Mr. Kissenger assumes the emerging prospects of success are greater than the existing prospects of success, but brings no support for that dream.
Meanwhile, a suicide attack on Iraqi police kills three folks. Dozens were killed the other day by four women wearing explosives. They still have no election law, thanks partly to the Kurds who are angling to include Kirkuk, whose oil fields contain 13 per cent of Iraq's proven reserves, in that they see as the kernel of a new Kurdish homeland.
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Any appearance that radical Islamic forces were responsible for a U.S. defeat would have enormous destabilizing consequences far beyond the region.
-Kissinger
And therein lies the crux of the problem of US foreign policy. Tangible material interests are subordinate to perceptions of credibility. A situation's particulars are always expanded to include remote possibilities. No investment is too great. Near his concluding paragraph, Kissinger still adheres to the delusion that if not for Congressional interference Vietnam could have been won. Some folks never learn.