Borrowed from Josh Marshall’s TPM
this recent report (pdf) from the National Defense University by Joseph Collins, the Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Stability Operations in the Pentagon until 2004, couldn’t provide a starker contrast. It is titled “Choosing War: The Decision to Invade Iraq and Its Aftermath,” and it begins:
Measured in blood and treasure, the war in Iraq has achieved the status of a major war and a major debacle….
It just don’t get no better than this and apparently neither does this war we are in.
