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...many ways, this is what happened after Vietnam. Underlying that war were the beliefs that the communists in North Vietnam couldn't withstand our military might and that the noncommunists in South Vietnam wanted to be saved. The war shattered both assumptions. On the left, Jimmy Carter responded by making human rights the centerpiece of his foreign policy: America would stand up for liberty--but not militarily. Conservatives insisted that had we used more military force in Vietnam, we would have won. But as the world turned increasingly anti-American, they abandoned the conceit that when we took up arms...
...This administration was unusually impervious to outside advice,” said Ashton B. Carter, a Kennedy School professor who served in the Clinton administration...
...Jimmy Carter raised the bar on what an ex-President can do, and Bill Clinton is trying to meet it or exceed it," said presidential historian Douglas Brinkley, whose book The Unfinished Presidency documents Carter's post-White House years. "He's not just playing on the cult of his celebrity," said Brinkley. "He's built a sophisticated nongovernmental organization that is getting real results, and raising untold amounts of money for causes." Says Brinkley, "It's pretty hard to argue with his success. Even his worst critics would have to say he's been an extraordinary ex-President...
...said there was zero chance that anyone would find chemical or biological weapons in Iraq: Molecular and Cellular Biology professor Matthew S. Meselson. Meselson did not return a request for comment. NOT QUITE ‘VINDICATED’Unlike most of his Belfer Center colleagues, Ashton B. Carter had already seen all the cards the Bush administration was holding. A former assistant secretary of defense for international security policy in the Clinton administration, Carter had been privy to the same Iraq intelligence that President Bush used—intelligence that dated back to 1998. He was also a specialist...
...finally explain his own. Ignatieff made a splash in early 2003 by coming out as a liberal supporter of the war. He wasn’t the only prominent pro-war intellectual at Harvard, but he stood out among those like Harvard Kennedy School professor Ashton B. Carter and neo-conservative Government professor Stephen P. Rosen ’74, who pushed for war on the basis of American interests abroad. Ignatieff began to reevaluate his stance on Iraq soon after the invasion, he said in a phone interview from Toronto, where he now serves as a member...