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n had remained convinced that the air campaign would work if we could hold the coalition together for two months. Putin didn’t want to have to deal with this twice. Thomas in the U. I had also received an intelligence report that al Qaeda had plans to attack yet another embassy, in Tirana, Albania, and t

The worst thing to happen to us in September was far more personal than political. I wanted to look around. Almost exactly six months later, on July 19, I went to the National Defense University at Fort McNair to announce it to the officers in attendance. At the beginning of my last week in Arkansas, with moving vans in the driveway, I gave a farewell interview to Arkansas reporters, confessi