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Withdrawal Symptoms

In: Unbearable Cost

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  • James K. Galbraith

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In November 2004, Lt General Ricardo Sanchez came to a luncheon at my professional home, the LBJ School of Public Affairs. I attended and asked some inconvenient questions. It was an inconsequential exchange, but two weeks later I received a surprising invitation. Would I fly to Germany in February and speak to the leadership of the Army V Corps about the operational conditions of Iraq? I have no military experience, and have never been to Iraq, while many in my audience — mostly generals and colonels — had spent over a year there. But of course I went. My unstated assignment was to say some inconvenient things, which may have otherwise gone unsaid.

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  • James K. Galbraith, 2006. "Withdrawal Symptoms," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: Unbearable Cost, pages 106-109, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-0-230-23672-1_30
    DOI: 10.1057/9780230236721_30
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