06-19-2006, 10:37 PM
Quote:The time to have done that would have been before March of 2003. Lots of guys in uniform have, and had, read that tome (to include me) but I will venture to guess that nearly no one on the policy side, suit and tie side, could be bothered. They doubtless figured the movie -- Lawrence of Arabia -- was good enough to use as a basis for policy.
Occhi
i'm not sure that "bothered" is really the right description. We are talking about an administration whose new mouthpiece didn't realize that using the phrase "hug the tar baby" in a press conference could cause some issues.