Condi speaks: Bush, er, listens?

[FreeperSlayer]

Magazine: Foreign Affairs
Issue: January/February 2000 (volume 79, number 1)
Title: Campaign 2000 -- Promoting the National Interest
Author: Condoleezza Rice

http://www.foreignpolicy2000.org/library/issuebriefs/readingnotes/fa_rice.html

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The president must remember that the military is a special instrument. It is lethal, and it is meant to be. It is not a civilian police force. It is not a political referee. And it is most certainly not designed to build a civilian society. Military force is best used to support clear political goals, whether limited, such as expelling Saddam from Kuwait, or comprehensive, such as demanding the unconditional surrender of Japan and Germany during World War II. It is one thing to have a limited political goal and to fight decisively for it; it is quite another to apply military force incrementally, hoping to find a political solution somewhere along the way.

[DoctorMyEyes]

1. Thank you, thank you, thank you!

I have been trying to find this quote for nearly a year! I thought it had been swept down the memory hole for all eternity.