First, Send Everybody Home
Three hundred-thirteen dead U.S. troops in the last three months and no Iraqi territory gained, none held, none pacified. Target-practice for the insurgents against the surge of American troops, set in motion by Presidential Medal of Freedom winner M. Paul Bremer when he sent everyone home four years ago. In one irresponsible and mistaken move, Bremer destroyed a functioning Iraqi society and opted for chaos.
Three hundred-thirteen dead U.S. troops in the last three months and no Iraqi territory gained, none held, none pacified. Target-practice for the insurgents against the surge of American troops, set in motion by Presidential Medal of Freedom winner M. Paul Bremer when he sent everyone home four years ago. In one irresponsible and mistaken move, Bremer destroyed a functioning Iraqi society and opted for chaos.
Taking the Czech Republic as an example of a more sensitive and sensible transformation (a regime change, if you will) from communism to democracy, there were lessons aplenty …