THE NEXT ONE WILL BE BETTER, HONEST!
Jul. 18th, 2003 09:52 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rmdhttp://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/iraq/complete/la-na-postwar18jul18,1,7035725.story?coll=la-home-headlines is an article about post-war-planning fuckups... and here's the bit at the end.
Still, [Douglas J. Feith, #3 official at the Pentagon] and other Pentagon officials said, they are studying the lessons of Iraq closely --- to ensure that the next U.S. takeover of a foreign country goes more smoothly.
"We're going to get better over time," promised Lawrence Di Rita, a special assistant to Rumsfeld. "We've always thought of post-hostilities as a phase" distinct from combat, he said. "The future of war is that these things are going to be much more of a continuum....
"This is the future for the world we're in at the moment," he said. "We'll get better as we do it more often."
Still, [Douglas J. Feith, #3 official at the Pentagon] and other Pentagon officials said, they are studying the lessons of Iraq closely --- to ensure that the next U.S. takeover of a foreign country goes more smoothly.
"We're going to get better over time," promised Lawrence Di Rita, a special assistant to Rumsfeld. "We've always thought of post-hostilities as a phase" distinct from combat, he said. "The future of war is that these things are going to be much more of a continuum....
"This is the future for the world we're in at the moment," he said. "We'll get better as we do it more often."
