1/15/2000

Future National Security Advisor “Condoleezza Rice had set the tone for the [Bush] administration in her [January/February] 2000 Foreign Affairs article, in which she argued, ‘Using the American armed forces as the world’s *911* will degrade capabilities [and] bog soldiers down in peacekeeping roles.’ ” [The 15th of the month used for date sorting purposes only.]

 – Daniel Benjamin and Steven Simon, The Next Attack, Page 187