A Letter to Paul Wolfowitz From Andrew J. Bacevich

(“Occasioned by the tenth anniversary of Iraq War” from Harpers March 2013 issue.)


Dear Paul,




Former Deputy Defense Secre.
Paul Wolfowitz.

I have been meaning to write to you for
some time, and the tenth anniversary of the beginning of the Iraq war provides
as good an occasion as any to do so. Distracted by other, more recent eruptions
of violence, the country has all but forgotten the