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December 14, 2005
Nation Building
So, in September 2001 America begins fighting in Afghanistan. Taking the war there was a good and proper move. This fight would necessarily see the destruction of the then-current Afghan regime, and the commitment of a sizable number of US forces to occupy the country afterwards...
We pretty much immediately began discussing an invasion of Iraq, the discussing culminating in the invasion of that country in March of 2003. Our invasion was predicated on the notion that we would destroy the then-current Iraqi regime. Our forces succeeded brilliantly...
In June/July 2004, Rumsfeld just started thinking about what it would take to do some nation building. John Weidner would like to give Rummy credit for only being 3 and a half years late. Me? I think such gross incompetence is cause for dismissal...
Posted by Andrew at December 14, 2005 12:48 PM
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