Failure in Iraq
Kenneth Pollack offers the most comprehensive summary I've yet seen on how the reconstruction of Iraq went wrong. The dimensions of failure are really collosal; certainly the article is benefiting from hindsight, but I have to wonder how things might have gone differently if an administration with competence and integrity had decided that Saddam needed to go. Cleaning this mess up is a daunting task; I wish we could see the future with as much clarity as Pollack outlines the past.
posted by Adam Villani @ 1/03/2007 11:02:00 AM
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I liked how the article distinguished between truly bad ideas, and good ideas either given too-agressive timetables and/or not given enough resources.
I follow the updates on this page: http://d-n-i.net/lind/lind_archive.htm, where the author looks at things from a "fourth generation warfare" counterinsurgency perspective. I find it interesting reading but I have to hold your nose and endure the author's paleoconservative and self-described monarchist (he believes the world would've been a much better place had Germany defeated France in 1914) views and his ranting about "cultural Marxists".
You have to hold my nose? Hey!
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