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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group
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To: NightOwl who wrote (126748)3/21/2004 12:41:17 PM
From: GST  Read Replies (1) of 281500
 
<NOTHING is more damaging to it's credibility than going to war and then changing your mind.> There is one thing worse than that -- escalation of commitment to a bad decision. When you cannot disengage from a bad decision, but instead invest more and more and more on a losing cause -- especially one that is actively harming your wider interests and your long-term security -- then you are doing some worse than "changing your mind". This was a bad decision. Escalating commitment to the first bad decision by making more bad decisions to continue to invest in this and similar wars is worse than facing reality and striving to make a good decision now. To draw a comparison -- the tragedy of Vietnam is not that we left -- the tragedy is that it took so long to admit we made a mistake and to leave.
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