The U.S. Foreign Policy 'Establishment' Is Incredibly Dumb

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"The U.S. foreign policy 'establishment' is incredibly dumb:

[With Afghan Retreat, Biden Bucks Foreign Policy Elite](https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/01/world/europe/afghanistan-biden-foreign-policy.html), New York Times, Sep. 1 2021
“The foreign policy establishment did get it wrong in Iraq, where the U.S. overreached,” said Richard N. Haass, the president of the Council on Foreign Relations. “We got it wrong in Libya, we got it wrong in Vietnam. But over the last 75 years, the foreign policy establishment has gotten most things right.”

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