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It’s been said that those who do not learn from their mistakes are doomed to repeat them. Perhaps... more It’s been said that those who do not learn from their mistakes are doomed to repeat them. Perhaps nowhere over the past half century has this idiom been more clearly exemplified than in the experience of the United States in the Islamic world. A simple analysis of the U.S. role in Afghanistan during and after the Soviet invasion of that country shows the arrogance with which successive U.S. administrations have approached Near and Middle Eastern policy and the disastrous consequences that have resulted from their refusal to relate to the region on its own terms. Beyond a general inability to fully implement policy initiatives in the region without the use of force or financing, the U.S. has suffered from a serious image problem highlighted by pervasive anti-American sentiment.
It’s been said that those who do not learn from their mistakes are doomed to repeat them. Perhaps... more It’s been said that those who do not learn from their mistakes are doomed to repeat them. Perhaps nowhere over the past half century has this idiom been more clearly exemplified than in the experience of the United States in the Islamic world. A simple analysis of the U.S. role in Afghanistan during and after the Soviet invasion of that country shows the arrogance with which successive U.S. administrations have approached Near and Middle Eastern policy and the disastrous consequences that have resulted from their refusal to relate to the region on its own terms. Beyond a general inability to fully implement policy initiatives in the region without the use of force or financing, the U.S. has suffered from a serious image problem highlighted by pervasive anti-American sentiment.