Re: Landmines RE: US Foreign Policy Re: *DO* we share a civilization?

[gmukund]

At 09:08 PM 8/21/2001 -0400, John Garcia wrote:

One can make a case that the government did know (or should have suspected)
that the invasion was imminent. See Atkinson's Crusade or Trainor's The
General's War.

john

While it's certainly possible that the government should have known what
was coming, the fact remains that it did not.  In fact the story of
American military intelligence is largely the story of repeated failures, I
would argue.  We didn't predict Pearl Harbor.  We didn't predict the first
Korean War.  We didn't predict the fall of the Shah of Iran.  We didn't
predict the fall of the Soviet Union.  We didn't predict the Iraqi invasion
of Kuwait.  The argument that we can stop a North Korean invasion because
we would know about it in advance, given that rather dismal record, is
nothing less than absurd.

Gautam