Dr. Lence would often roll out his map of the world and ask some poor student, "MISS-ter So-and-so, would you please come up here and show us where [insert name of country] is?" It was only somewhat better for you if you could complete the task but either way, your trouble had only just begun. The point of this theater was to demonstrate that the geopolitical makes mush of conventional wisdom.
Today, nothing is more conventional than to say the Iraq war was a mistake. If Dr. Lence were with us today, he'd roll out his map of the Middle East and ask, "Are we not better off today, than if we'd never gone to Iraq?"
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