Mission Accomplished - 4 years later
On one hand it seems like only yesterday we were basking in the glow of victory with President Bush. I can tell you that I was happy that we were declaring victory. I was looking forward to the next speech tell us that our troops were coming home. Well, that speech never came.
On the other hand, I’m a skeptic. As a trauma surgeon, my job is to see the down side. My job is to see what can go wrong and intervene. I never felt comfortable with the invasion of Iraq. I never thought that job in Afghanistan was completed. I never quite bought Colin Powell’s presentation.
I guess my official position was guarded optimism. The bad news is that I didn’t have wait very long before it was clear that I was correct. You can’t just walk in and walk out of country and expect everything to roll for you. You just can’t. I don’t think that it is a law of thermodynamics but it is a law of the Art of War. It is a law of human nature.
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