The LA Times (reg. required--use bselig for both userid and password) has the most comprehensive story I've yet seen on Administration post-war planning. The final paragraphs offer this chilling remark:
"We're going to get better over time," promised Lawrence Di Rita, a special assistant to Rumsfeld. "We've always thought of post-hostilities as a phase" distinct from combat, he said. "The future of war is that these things are going to be much more of a continuum."This is the future for the world we're in at the moment," he said. "We'll get better as we do it more often."
As we do it more often? Who do they think they are? Napoleon? Alexander the Great? As a nun in "Bells of St. Mary's" might have said: "Saints preserve us!"
John Dean (yes, that John Dean) thinks a special prosecutor is required. My caveat is: yeah, right. Special prosecutors must be appointed by the President.
Posted by Linkmeister at July 18, 2003 09:26 AMI'd say that war is the new preferred method of negotiating, wouldn't you? Who cares what comes after as long as we leave a steaming pile of rubble behind.
Posted by: Raye at July 18, 2003 11:56 AM