"that the United States entered the effort to liberate Iraq without a plan?"
Nah, the war against Saddam's Iraq had a typically *excellent* military plan, characteristic of our world's best military.
It's just TOO BAD that the equally carefully considered, planned, and drawn-out plan for the occupation of Iraq (drawn-up in a greater then three year process by our best military planners from the Pentagon, the State Department's best Arab experts, and the C.I.A.) was REJECTED at the 'last minute' (a few months before the attack) and REPLACED with a pie-in-the-sky occupation plan promoted by a bunch of rosy-eyed neo-con optimists (with MUCH LESS experience with the region, the politics, and the peoples), that expected 'rose petals' to be strewn in our path, and the locals to enthusiasticly get behind a plan to fully PRIVATIZE all of Iraq's major business sectors, including their entire oil industry. :(
That last little bit of whimsy only lasted a few months before it was rejected by the Iraqis AND Western oil companies.
With the experts over-ruled by the fantacists and the self-deluded... is it any wonder difficulties arose with the direction and results of the occupation?
But, the plan for the military attack was excellent.... |
