The U.S. Government's Biggest Mistakes in the War on Terrorism

Stephanie Coontz: The united states appeared something that hasn't appeared for a long time, competent. That turns out to have been important for the whole psychology of this from the bery getgo. So on the american side, the debac in afghanistan, and actually the roll out of a very good policy, acus,. When we made the deal to sell nucleus submarines to the australians which was rolled out poorly and offended our allies in europe, especially the french. Those big mistakes turned out to be learning moments for the byden administration. And even people who perform poorly, they can get better.