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To: NOW who wrote (23192)	7/24/2003 8:35:15 PM
From: lurqer	Respond to of 89467

not incomptency per se, but idealism over realism. Agree with your assessment about the upper echelons. In the best of circumstances, the neo-con plan would be challenging to "pull off". The incomptency I was referring to was in the MIC (Military Industrial Complex) personnel on the ground. "I met the man who was hired to create a new civil government in Baghdad, to bring Baghdad back to order ... I asked him what he knew about Iraqis. He knew nothing, and didn't care to know anything. He didn't know their history, their government, didn't speak a word of Arabic and didn't care to learn. This guy doesn't work for the American government, doesn't work for the State Department, and doesn't work for the CPA. He works for a corporation created by ex-Generals. Their job is to create the new Iraqi government structure." from Message 19127933 Worked in the MIC long enough to know, this is not "unusual". Since I view the neo-cons as MIC intellectuals, I see a certain macabre irony in this. After a decade of decline, the MIC is "back in power", and "riding high". And their own incompetency will (in part) be their "undoing". JMO lurqer