The Dumb American

"A key architect of an influential surgical strikes plan for Syria is publicly questioning the wisdom of carrying them out. 'I never intended my analysis of a cruise missile strike option to be advocacy, even though some people took it as that,' said Chris Harmer, a senior naval analyst at the Institute for the Study of War." (Architect of US war plan doubts it will work, John Hudson, Sydney Morning Herald/Foreign Policy, 29/8/13)