Small Wars Journal

Cousin Abu is Most Right

Sat, 04/12/2008 - 3:59pm

Doug Feith on Diane Rehm - Abu Muqawama

There is simply not enough booze in Abu Muqawama's apartment to get him through this interview on the Diane Rehm Show with Doug Feith.

I'd throw up my two-cents on the revisionists but it is much too nice a weekend to waste on the likes of Feith and company. If you really want more right now then curl up with this.

As many in the military publicly acknowledge here for the first time, the guerrilla insurgency that exploded several months after Saddam's fall was not foreordained. In fact, to a shocking degree, it was created by the folly of the war's architects. But the officers who did raise their voices against the miscalculations, shortsightedness, and general failure of the war effort were generally crushed, their careers often ended. A willful blindness gripped political and military leaders, and dissent was not tolerated...

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Comments

Oh, I don't know. It might be kind of fun to watch Abu drunk-blog the interview. We could see what kind of fire might fly from his pen. Is Abu okay with getting liquored up tonight?

On another whole level, a much grander scale, any problem statement that begins "there is simply not enough booze to [you fill in the blank]," and I stop listening at the word "to."

The solution to this dilemma is always, always to go get some more booze, yes?