Quotes about Miscalculation

He was not the king they expected.

Operation Ajax set a pattern for U.S. miscalculation in dealing with developing countries that lasted throughout the Cold War: mistaking nationalist aspirations for Communist plots; equating commercial interests with national security; subverting democratically elected governments and aligning ourselves with autocrats when we determined it was to our benefit.

Qaddafi counted on America to be passive. He counted wrong.

Someone had blundered.