In 2007, soon after taking over command of U.S. forces in Iraq, Gen. David Petraeus admitted, “There is no military solution to a problem like that in Iraq.”
Two years later, Gen. Stanley McChrystal echoed those sentiments about Afghanistan: “Provide them an environment in which they can live and work, and they can have protection of the law and they can develop businesses — that’s the real solution.”
We know how to kick in doors and win battles. But we’re again having to relearn how to secure the peace.
The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness. John Kenneth Galbraith
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