Carl P. Leubsdorf: Getting Out of Wars Is Harder than Getting In

Getting out of wars is harder than getting in

Some years after the most successful U.S. war of recent decades — the 1991 rout of Iraqi President Saddam Hussein’s forces from Kuwait — Gen. Colin Powell articulated the principles that guided the Bush administration’s strategy.

Carl P. Leubsdorf: Getting out of wars is harder than getting in

Some years after the most successful U.S. war of recent decades — the 1991 rout of Iraqi President Saddam Hussein’s forces from Kuwait — Gen. Colin Powell articulated the principles that guided the Bush administration’s strategy.

Leubsdorf: Getting out of wars is harder than getting in

Some years after the most successful U.S. war of recent decades — the 1991 rout of Iraqi President Saddam Hussein’s forces from Kuwait — Gen. Colin Powell articulated the principles that guided the Bush administration’s strategy.