hugel argue that this waste of resources could have been avoided had we paid some attention to history. if the obama administration had looked back, not far, back to the clinton administration to find some of the same ideas. if you think columbia in the 1990's -- we had a lot of the same ideas. we were going to use nonmilitary power. we would not give money to columbia's ministry -- military. we were going to get it to law enforcement. crop substitution programs. same thing happen though in afghanistan. people were getting killed. it was not until the government in both countries decided to put a heavy emphasis on the security side that you made progress. wheres just one example there are some clear indications from history that the different policy should be reviewed. oftentimes not so straightforward. what we often see is a situation where there are multiple presidents. a classic case would be in iraq in 2003. after we took down saddam hussein, we looked for ideas for rebuilding the country. we focused heavily on nazi germany. argue and in hindsight we probably should have looked at