Gordon Goldstein

author, 'Lessons in Disaster'

Guest

Author of Lessons in Disaster: McGeorge Bundy and the Path to War in Vietnam; scholar of international affairs and member of the Council on Foreign Relations

Gordon Goldstein on KCRW

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When Afghanistan's presidential election was under way, Peter Galbraith complained that the UN mission refused to release evidence of fraud.

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