If there is one thing that President Bush learned while skating through Business School, making friends with folks who would make his life even more comfortable, he learned that a plan is necessary. Plans are the lifeblood of B-schools. They are what you pepper your Powerpoint presentations with. They are what you get loans with. Preparing to succeed requires plans. Without a plan you cannot ever hope to accomplish your goals.
Enough with the B-school maxims, now, let's apply that to Iraq. We must conclude that either GWBush and his merry band of invaders had no plans and still have no plans because they refused and continue to refuse to accept the fact that our troops were welcomed with guns along with the roses or they do have a plan and the plan shows that this war will take a long time to succeed, for all the reasons that have been talked about. Does the Bush administration think that it can tell people that it will take five years of understaffing, or is it still in the dark?
Eventually, sadly, we will find out whether the reason there is no timetable is because there is no plan or because the plan is too pessimistic to make public. It is not because they are worried about giving the insurgents hope.
[crossposted from
No Free Lunch]