Friday, April 23, 2004
Decision Making
From Juan Cole:
It does make sense to have the President sign off on a major military decision, such as what's going on in Fallujah, but of course, this Bush decision backfired. Can he get any Iraq decisions right?
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There are also rumors that Bush himself made the decision that Fallujah would have to be massively punished for the desecration of the bodies of the US private soldiers of fortune killed there, and that Gen. John Abizaid strongly agreed.
That decision backfired badly from a political point of view, both in Iraq and the region , and the British in particular have signalled hard that it is time for the US to negotiate.
It does make sense to have the President sign off on a major military decision, such as what's going on in Fallujah, but of course, this Bush decision backfired. Can he get any Iraq decisions right?
