Thank you Josh Marshall
He caught the whole of an excellent description of our plight by Fareed Zakaria on ABC News' This Week that went by before I could recover from stunned appreciation:
"Leave process aside: the results are plain. On almost every issue involving postwar Iraq—troop strength, international support, the credibility of exiles, de-Baathification, handling Ayatollah Ali Sistani—Washington's assumptions and policies have been wrong. By now most have been reversed, often too late to have much effect. This strange combination of arrogance and incompetence has not only destroyed the hopes for a new Iraq. It has had the much broader effect of turning the United States into an international outlaw in the eyes of much of the world."
Posted by Prometheus 6 on May 9, 2004 - 5:38pm :: War
