Quote of the day, from old Hofstader:
War is a comedy of errors and incompetence.
“Any historian of warfare knows it is in good part a comedy of errors and a museum of incompetence.” —Richard Hofstader in “The Paranoid Style in American Politics”.
“Any historian of warfare knows it is in good part a comedy of errors and a museum of incompetence.” —Richard Hofstader in “The Paranoid Style in American Politics”.
Thomas E. Ricks is a former contributing editor to Foreign Policy. Twitter: @tomricks1
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