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To: Dale Baker who wrote (25034)	7/25/2006 10:25:30 AM
From: JohnM	Respond to of 542883

The paragraph in that review that struck me the most was this one: In late 2002, Mr. Ricks reports, 70 national security experts and Mideast scholars met at the National Defense University to discuss the looming war and concluded that occupying Iraq would “be the most daunting and complex task the U.S. and the international community will have undertaken since the end of World War II.” The group’s emphasis on the importance of “maintaining a secure environment” in post-invasion Iraq and its recommendation against a swift dissolution of the Iraqi military would be ignored in the ensuing months. And the second one that stuck with me was the paragraph that ended with the feather/duck metaphor, one I will not forget for a long time. I'm not a fan of her book reviews. She's generally much too critical. I tend to like and learn from books she downplays. On the other hand, if she likes a book and reviews it well, it is almost always one I tend to find worthwhile.