Originally Posted by
Gian P Gentile
Dr. Metz:
I liked the first paragraph and it seems to me to be spot-on in terms of nailing mistakes made early on in how to approach the war with al-queda.
In the second paragraph you seem to portray the Cold War as some how a simpler or easier problem since it was symetric. I have found military officers tend to do this same thing when talking about how difficult coin is compared to what they think war with the soviet union would have been like had we fought it on the north german plains; that conventional war is somehow simpler than coin. I believe both are difficult in their own ways and conditions. So again you may want to look at the subtlety of your second paragraph and how it makes the Cold War appear to have been an easier problem for policy makers than the war on terror. If that is what you think of it then so be it, but I think it was a set of challenges that were different in degree and not quality.
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