It's time to get out our copies of The Quiet American again. jks  Doug Henwood <dhenwood@panix.com> wrote: <BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #1010ff 2px solid">Bradford DeLong wrote: >>Steven wrote: >> >>>Quite a few of the troops have said to me that this isn't what they were >>>expecting. >> >>They joined the damned Marines, fer Chrissake. What did they >>expect? A sit-down dinner with a string quartet accompaniment? >> >>Doug > > >To liberate an oppressed people from a cruel dictator... Well that reminds me of what Anatol Lieven said when I interviewed him, characterizing the profound ignorance of everyone from Rummy to Hitch: "These people wouldn't be fit to run a kebab stand in Iraq." Doug</BLOCKQUOTE> <hr size=1>Do you Yahoo!? <a href="http://rd.yahoo.com/platinum/evt=8162/*http://platinum.yahoo.com/splash.html">Yahoo! Platinum</a> - Watch CBS' NCAA March Madness, <a href="http://rd.yahoo.com/platinum/evt=8162/*http://platinum.yahoo.com/splash.html">live on your desktop</a>!