Now that the United States has declared an end to the combat stage of its operations in Iraq, as if that is stopping IEDs from going off and deterring insurgents from attacking, it is time to start the inevitable process known as what if." All historians and pundits sooner or later do this.
For example, what if someone had stood up to Dick Cheney and prevented him from browbeating the U.S. intelligence community into giving the Bush administration the intelligence analyses that suited its preconceptions. What if the U.S. military had planned for a prolonged insurgency? What if Paul Bremer hadn't disbanded the Iraqi army?
And on the subject of private security contractors, what if the U.S. military had done something different after four Blackwater contractors were killed in Fallujah in 2004?
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