>Doug wrote to Marvin:
><blockquote>
>>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
><blockquote>
>
>That sounds like revisionism, Doug! Even on LBO-talk, for a _long_
>time, those who thought that Washington could and should provide
>"security" for Iraqis, "reconstruct" Iraq, "prevent" a civil war, etc.
>were a majority. Look into the archived threads on Iraq from 2003
>till at least early 2004.
That's not relevant at all. The point was that a disastrous outcome to an invasion of Iraq was widely predicted by anyone who knew anything about the country. How to handle the ensuing choas was a separate question.
Doug