NYT Op-Ed . . . short . . . Friedman must be losing steam
(intro)
President Bush is sure lucky no weapons of mass destruction have been found yet in Iraq.
Because had we found these weapons our entire focus today would be on the real issue: why the Bush team ? which wanted this war so badly and had telegraphed it for so long ? was so poorly prepared for postwar Iraq.
I still believe that with the right effort Iraq can be made a decent place. But that task has been made much harder because of the Pentagon's poor planning for postwar Iraq. If the Pentagon's lapses can be overcome ? and I hope they will be ? then we should learn from them for future wars. If they can't be overcome, then they will be grist for next year's who-lost-Iraq debate.
(intro)
President Bush is sure lucky no weapons of mass destruction have been found yet in Iraq.
Because had we found these weapons our entire focus today would be on the real issue: why the Bush team ? which wanted this war so badly and had telegraphed it for so long ? was so poorly prepared for postwar Iraq.
I still believe that with the right effort Iraq can be made a decent place. But that task has been made much harder because of the Pentagon's poor planning for postwar Iraq. If the Pentagon's lapses can be overcome ? and I hope they will be ? then we should learn from them for future wars. If they can't be overcome, then they will be grist for next year's who-lost-Iraq debate.
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