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Booknotes+ : Robert Kaplan, "The Tragic Mind"

After Words

CHAPTER

The Dirt of War, the Fear of War

I was in Fallujah with the first battalion of the fifth Marines. It was three or four days, but it seemed like three or four years. Anyone who says they're brave while experiencing combat, I distrust. You have to be careful not to over-learn an analogy. Every foreign crisis is not 1939 and that it's too easy to fall down.

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