This is presidential historian and author Robert Dallek: "Once the public turns against a war, once it is convinced that you are embarked upon if not a losing enterprise then something that is going to produce a quagmire, it creates tremendous political difficulties for the president and it undermines his credibility, trust in his judgment and his ability to put across his domestic reforms,"

VOA: standard.2009.10.09

One comes across it periodically. Within the last year, a member of our law school here put forward this very argument and said he thought it was a good one.

就在去年，我校法学院的一名成员就提出了,同样是这个论点并加之褒奖。

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