McGovern says these appointments demonstrate a continuation of the mentality that led the United States into wars in Vietnam, Iraq, and now again, Afghanistan.
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This mentality of going to war for the ostensible purpose of liberating people – while actually wreaking widespread havoc – results from a lack of diversity in the kind of advisers Presidents have chosen to surround themselves with, according to McGovern, who sees little difference in Obama's Cabinet.
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