Screw up so bad, it's like it was on purpose
Monday, August 27, 2007 at 6:55AM
Thomas P.M. Barnett

OP-ED: The MacArthur Lunch, By Roger Cohen, New York Times, August 27, 2007

This one goes--along with all the others--into the file that reads "This isn't impossible unless you purposefully screw it up." This one is all the more painful because the Bush administration seemed to know better in Afghanistan and then abandoned that precedent for Iraq.

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