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Foreign Affairs Why Do U.S. Presidents Keep Risking Foreign Quagmires? Domestic pressures result in foreign adventures. During the past three-quarters of a century, beginning in 1950 and continuing right through to the current war with Iran, U.S. presidents repeatedly have risked involvement in conflicts that resulted in military quagmires with disappointing endings. Why do presidents keep repeating the same mistakes in the name of “national security”? By 1950, the U.S. government had taken then-poor South Korea out of the U.S. defense perimeter. The United States had withdrawn its forces after the Second World War, because the Joint Chiefs of Staff became resigned to the fact that non-strategic South Korea would eventually come…Open
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According to the report, the Department of Education “stopped assessing student loan servicers on accuracy and call quality due to lack of staff capacity,” a move that has curtailed key performance reviews.
When the Trump administration EPA repealed the basis for regulating greenhouse gas emissions, anti-fossil fuel groups, as well as states like California, reacted to the repeal with litigation. Oil producers and critics of climate policies that raise energy costs are responding with their own legal actions to protect the repeal.
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