Looking Back on the Fiasco’
The Washington Post has an interesting series that analyzes the mess in Mesopotamia.The Washington Post has an interesting series that analyzes the mess in Mesopotamia.
From The Washington Post:
About This Series “Fiasco: The American Military Adventure in Iraq” was based on a review of more than 30,000 pages of military documents, several hundred interviews with U.S. military personnel, the author’s own articles in The Washington Post, and reporting in the Post and other newspapers.
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Prudence might counsel Washington to assume that when it comes to organizing, training, equipping and motivating foreign armies, the United States is essentially clueless.
Hamid Karzai and NATO would like Afghan forces to take over the country's security by 2014, a goal Pentagon spokesman Geoff Morrell calls "aspirational," as in "There may very well be the need for forces to remain in-country " (more jibber-jabber after the jump).
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