
273 | Elliot Ackerman: Reckoning with America's End in Afghanistan
The Realignment
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The Cost of Failure Is Much Lower
The cost of failure is much lower if the people involved in the failure are part of this all volunteer military, and they're not everyday americans. I mean, it's apporinit to remember, like president pushkits re elected in november two thousand four, when there's no w m d found. If you have a large standing military coupled with incredibly difunctional domestic politics, democracy doesn't last long public. Ean, the founding fathers warned about that dynamic. And i think itis is an issue that we should be paying more attention to than we necessarily are at the moment now.
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