“One of the things that ultimately led me to leave mathematics and go into political science was thinking I could prevent nuclear war.”
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I mean, we're going to probably debate the Iraq war for at least as long as I'm alive.
I can't predict the future.
Someone once said that history has more imagination than all the scenario writers in the Pentagon, and we have a lot of scenario writers here. No one ever wrote a scenario for commercial airliners crashing into the World Trade Center.
We did not go to war in Afghanistan or in Iraq to, quote, 'impose democracy.' We went to war in both places because we saw those regimes as a threat to the United States.
