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Kana -> RE: My Gosh the President used business concepts with exchanges.... (11/20/2013 5:42:51 PM)
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I seem to recall former President G. W. Bush (for example) created a group of people to handle the question 'what to do with Iraq AFTER its in USA control'. That plan had a risk assessment tied to it. And what happen in reality and the plan are two very different things. Makes you wonder why REPUBLICANS were not mad at the REPUBLICAN President and his White House when the plan got FUBAR'd and the risk plan was put into action (clumsily at that).
Yeah-and that team followed up a terrific attack plan with something like an 11 page memo for how to handle Iraq post war.Mostly it came down to The Free Iraqi's will rise, rejoice, and overnight become a Democratic nation. (In contrast, the Allies had something like a 50 volume infrastructure ready to put in place Post WW 2 that, coupled with the Marshall Plan, rebuilt Europe far more rapidly than would be expected). Some of this was due to an post Vietnam aversion to nation building (and the Army sure didn't want to police a foreign civilian population), but more was based around the Wilsonian Ideal of allowing freedom loving people to seek freedom.Plus,they had a whole slew of sleazy rich Expats who had fled Iraq years before that they thought could act in a governing fashion.Instead, to their horror,the Iraqi's rejected the exiles completely,preferring people who had stuck around under the regime.
The tragedy of it is that there was a window there where, if a real occupation plan had been in place,one that got the water running,the power on, put some order in the streets, the Middle East would be a radically different place than the smoking war zone it currently is.
There was a tremendous once in a generation chance to really make things different and the Bush team blew it almost 100%.
Such a shame. It's like the Top Chef critique-great concept,terrible execution.
Sigh
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