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Mistakes, after all, are endemic to foreign and military policy given the unpredictability of events and the difficulty of securing reliable information in a place like Iraq. ↗

— Eric Alterman

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Promises are the uniquely human way of ordering the future, making it predictable and reliable to the extent that this is humanly possible. ↗

— Hannah Arendt

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