I'm struck by just how it feels like one colossal blunder or failure after another. I think that this is one of the kind of moral things at eventually eats away at people, is that there's this political expedient that you have to go along with. At a certain point, maybe you reach a point where you just can't do it any more. It'saits the ultimate end justifies the means. Almost all these operations were were just complete disasters. Eastern europe was just kind of unmitigated disaster. Probably a bit more successful in asia, thahad certainly been, than in eastern europe. But the whay you saw time and again was it was

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