Posted: 3/3/2003 5:18:19 PM EDT
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... three of the greatest strategic errors of modern times -- Germany's unrestricted submarine warfare in 1917, Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor, the Soviet refusal of postwar U.S. aid in exchange for liberality in Eastern-Europe -- involved underestimating the dangers of provoking America. Khalid Sheik Mohammed, one of the authors of the fourth great error, the Sept. 11 attacks, may have belatedly understood that danger when, before dawn last Saturday, he stood in his underwear, facing the drawn guns of the men who told him America would like to ask him some questions. The Wall Street Journal Europe March 4, 2003 America Is Acting In Its Own Defense By GEORGE F. WILL (The Washington Post) http://online.wsj.com/article/0,,SB1046731343194092480,00.html |
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Quoted: Khalid Sheik Mohammed, one of the authors of the fourth great error, the Sept. 11 attacks, may have belatedly understood that danger when, before dawn last Saturday, he stood in his underwear, facing the drawn guns of the men who told him America would like to ask him some questions. Ohh to have been a fly on the wall witnessing that moment... |