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The Importance of Discipline in War
Both my uncle and Khrushchev realized during this correspondence that they were both surrounded by an intelligence apparatus and by military brass who considered war both inevitable and desirable. They knew they had to talk to each other if they were going to save the world. And these letters N ran the State Department. The question now is, are we willing to do anything like that today? Or are we going to remain stuck in a self-righteous story in which America is categorically good and our opponents are irredeemably evil? If we remain stuck there, so will every other nation. It's not only America that's falling into this simplistic, good guy, bad guy thinking. That's the example