Post by Hoosier Hillbilly on Jan 8, 2015 8:45:03 GMT -5
www.nytimes.com/2012/10/02/books/endgame-and-iraq-by-michael-gordon-and-bernard-trainor.html?_r=0
Excerpt:
Here the book essentially lumps together Mr. Bush’s initial national security team and the Obama administration, neither of which had much of a taste for counterinsurgency. This seems a bit unfair. The Obama administration does come off as somewhat callous and shortsighted, but it was simply finishing off a job it never wanted to do in the first place.
The Bush administration, in contrast, was the one that initiated a war out of the blue but couldn’t be bothered to plan for what would happen when the fighting stopped. Had Donald H. Rumsfeld, Tommy Franks and their colleagues taken their responsibilities more seriously in the beginning, the heroics of General Petraeus, General Odierno and the rest later would never have been necessary.