What Should We Do Now...

[RedEarth]

Interesting article in Newsweek. Once again it exposes the arrogance of this adminstration and the lack of planning prior to invading Iraq.


It is time to recognize that the occupation of Iraq needs fixing. This has been a massive enterprise undertaken with little planning and extreme arrogance. During the war, Defense Department officials explained that the postwar situation was "unknowable," so no planning was really possible. (By this logic there would be no point in planning for anything.) Even the question of how long the United States would stay involved in Iraq produced a series of varying responses, from the vacuous "as long as it takes" to the absurd "three months" (from Jay Garner). That we had no plan for postwar government was quickly evident to the Iraqis. In 1920 a British official despaired of that country's occupation of Iraq in words that are prophetic: "How can the local population settle down when we won't tell it what we are going to do? We must either govern Mesopotamia or not govern it."

http://www.msnbc.com/news/956615.asp?vts=082520030750