This Is What a Guerrilla War Looks Like

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

by Maria Tomchick

While it's now apparent that The Pentagon made no substantial plans for how to run post-war Iraq, somebody else in Iraq has certainly made plans for how to sabotage US rule.

Before the war began, military strategists insisted that they had a plan for Iraq after the fighting was over. Their plan was to swoop in, seize or kill Saddam Hussein and his top cadre, and leave the mid-level government managers, city officials, village mayors, and police forces in place to run the country. The Pentagon expected the Iraqi military to refuse to fight, to depose Saddam in a coup, and to maintain control of the security situation in Iraq so US troops could waltz into Baghdad and set up a new government.

None of these optimistic scenarios has played out as planned. In fact, while Congress slowly nibbles on the intelligence data from the CIA and Defense Intelligence Agency in search of the people who overestimated Iraq's weapons of mass destruction, no one has thought to demand hearings over which military planners or upper level Bush administration officials took us into a war with a long-term plan that resembles a Harry Potter novel

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http://www.eatthestate.org/07-22/WhatGuerrillaWar.htm

[HawkerHurricane]

1. Somebody didn't read his Clauswitz:

"No plan survives first contact with the enemy".

Or if you prefer Capt. Murphy, USAF:
"If anything can go wrong, it will."

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

2. Sometimes History doesn't merely repeat itself

sometimes it screams "Weren't you paying attention the first time?" and lets fly with a club.

That's pretty good. Can I have permission to use it? Not online necessarily but I think it would dumbfound people in most arguments.

[HawkerHurricane]

3. It's not mine

I copied it from somewhere and now can't remember who said it...someone said it comes from Richard Pratchet, a author I'm fond of, so it might be his.

By all means, go ahead and use it. None of my writing is copyrighted.

Yet.