Sifting through the rubble.(Below The Beltway)
American Prospect, The, October, 2003 by Judis, John B.
Last February I had lunch with a friend who was teaching at one of the military war colleges. He told me that the officers he knew were uniformly skeptical about a war with Iraq. "I don't think they are worried about fighting Iraq but about garrisoning it afterward," he said. I heard similar doubts about the wisdom of the war from foreign-policy experts, oil-industry consultants and Middle East historians, but the Bush White House was not interested in these opinions.
It was listening to the echo chamber set up by the Pentagon, The Weekly Standard and the American ...
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