Change of Course

March 19, 2007

Former Democratic House Speaker Sam Rayburn of Texas once said, “Any jackass can knock down a barn. It takes a carpenter to build one.” Bush administration officials have proven expert at knocking down security agreements their predecessors carefully constructed, but have created few replacements. They have left the national defense landscape a shambles.

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This article was originally published in Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists.