Imagine being a proud part of the military for decades, serving as strategist and then it lands on you: our policy is a failure. Major Danny Sjursen in his inaugural Tom Dispatch post writes from a unique perspective on what he came to recognize as a misuse of American military power and the serious damage it has caused. If people on the ground in those regions had had input into decision making, quite possibly we’d be in much better shape. Instead we made it so much worse and played right into the hands of our enemies.