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...What I know after a very extensive time both here and in Iraq is, if you don't put yourself in their shoes and you oversimplify what they might think, you are just wrong...
...pictures of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan at LIFE.com...
...mails and phone calls from people I knew who wanted to come. And these were people who had been here before. Many away from their families for a long time. One of my aides, who had only six months before come back from a tough assignment in Samarra, Iraq - he volunteered to go. And the energy that I found in that group of people and here in the embassy. It's not what you'd think after eight years. You'd think there would be cynicism, you would think there would be fatigue, but it is actually the opposite...
...wage his campaign to make amends for Vietnam through the end of his life, most notably in Errol Morris' Oscar-winning 2003 documentary, The Fog of War: Eleven Lessons from the Life of Robert S. McNamara. And he was a vocal critic of the Bush Administration's war in Iraq. Still, there were those who found it hard to forget or forgive his handling of the war he helped lead. Inevitably, its failure is now his epitaph...
...former government adviser on terrorism, says there are lessons to be drawn from the 2004 Madrid commuter-train bombings that killed 191 people. "The attacks took place before the elections, with the aim of influencing the outcome of the vote, so that Spain would pull its troops out of Iraq," he says. And Spain eventually did. "For al-Qaeda, it would be ideal to launch a terrorist attack in Germany before the election in September, to provoke a public debate about the German mission in Afghanistan." (See pictures of Osama bin Laden...