Wednesday, August 16, 2006

From the Good Question file.

Thomas Friedman has one for Dick Cheney…
If we're in such a titanic struggle with radical Islam, and if getting Iraq right is at the center of that struggle, why did you "tough guys" fight the Iraq war with the Rumsfeld Doctrine — just enough troops to lose — and not the Powell Doctrine of overwhelming force to create the necessary foundation of any democracy-building project, which is security? How could you send so few troops to fight such an important war when it was obvious that without security Iraqis would fall back on their tribal militias?
Actually, he has more, and happily Steve Benen has liberated some of the juicy bits from behind the NYT Select curtain.

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