美国的第三个错误是过高估计了传统军事力量在对待国际政治中典型的弱国和跨国组织网络中所起的作用，至少在泛中东地区的确如此。
America’s third mistake was to overestimate how effective conventional military power would be in dealing with the weak states and networked transnational organizations that characterize international politics, at least in the broader Middle East.