The more confident Americas leaders became in the hammer of military force, Beinart wrote, the more closely they looked for nails in projecting force abroad.[733] Bush administration officials were hardly enamored of Clinton, but, when it came to foreign policy, Beinart noted, they stood on his shoulders.[734] The hubris bubble expanded with the swift destruction of the Taliban regime in Afghanistan after the devastating September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on the United States
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We take seriously the fact that we are behind our competitor in terms of speed of deployment, he told Tobacco Asia
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