Didn't Clinton a Regret Not Sending Troops Into Rowanda Earlier?

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Clinton's explanation was, he got hammered for sending troops into cosavo. Even more with samalia is the year before,. 92, o 93, that a basically we sent in troops. They did solve the problem. Then 21 or so, 25 total, i think, got killed. And clinton was under big pressure to get out of there. For humanitarian ventures like that, casualty tolerance is likely to be extremely low. On the other hand, you can do an get outa that din't solve the problem. It may even make it somewhat worse. But at least he tried ins he was one. So so sometimes it can be done.

In this conversation based on his new book, The Stupidity of War, political scientist John Mueller argues that American foreign policy since 1945 has been one long miscue; most international threats — including during the Cold War — have been substantially exaggerated. The result has been agony and bloviation, unnecessary and costly military interventions that have mostly failed. With international war in decline, complacency and appeasement become viable diplomatic devices and a large military is scarcely required.