[Valentine Michael Smith]

I too have repented bitterly. I should have known. The big guys were telling us the Iraquis would love us, but they did not. James Baker said, “Nobody asks me anymore why we didn’t go on to Baghdad.” (Desert Storm)

[papertyger]

I too have repented bitterly. I should have known. The big guys were telling us the Iraquis would love us, but they did not.

Let us not forget, no battle plan, however brilliantly conceived, survives contact with the State Department.