Glory in defeat

In 1991 the United States showed how it is possible to win a war and yet fail to attain the fruits of victory. In his Washington Post column today Robert Kagan suggests that France may yet win supremacy in Europe while losing its immediate objective of blocking the United States from deposing Saddam Hussein: “Napoleonic fervor.”

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