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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: Alighieri who wrote (237960)6/19/2005 12:59:54 PM
From: Elroy  Read Replies (1) of 1582191
 
In this book, Mr. Diamond contends that the postwar troubles in Iraq - a bloody and unrelenting insurgency, the creation of a new breeding ground for terrorists and metastasizing ethnic and religious tensions - are the result of "gross negligence" on the part of a Bush administration that rushed to war. He asserts that "mistakes were made at virtually every turn" of the occupation, and that "every mistake the United States made in Iraq narrowed the scope and lengthened the odds for progress."

While I would agree with the assessment, doesn't this type of over the top rhetoric render the message less effective? It does in my mind.

"mistakes were made at virtually every turn" of the occupation,

The term "occupation" is loaded, and the sentence says everything the coalition did was wrong. That's ridiculous.
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