US goals: malevolent strategy (invasion, conquest): stupid tactics (light & fast forces, strategic bombing, psyops): very stupid. bottom line: it's a case where evil isn't banal but incompetent (and corrupt).
On 4/11/06, Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote:
> Marvin Gandall wrote:
>
> >I also think it's mistaken to consider the invasion of Iraq an act of
> >"stupidity" so much as of miscalculation
>
> Almost everyone who knew anything about Iraq predicted what would
> happen if the US invaded, and the Bush admin ignored or fired them.
> Miscalculation seems too kind a word for that.
>
> Doug
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