Tuesday, July 20, 2010
Ignorant in Iraq
""I was in Baghdad after the U.S. invasion and met these young Bush appointees who, as Rajiv Chandrasekaran notes in his book “Imperial Life in the Emerald City,” were often chosen because they were 100 percent loyal to Bush, even if they were 100 percent ignorant of Iraq. Their ignorance helped fuel our failure there."" And I was not in Iraq when I did not meet those American journalists like Friedman who were 100 percent ignorant of Iraq but 100 percent loyal to a war that they now want to dissociate from.