Is it inevitable that the postwar planning gets short shrift because of the overwhelming challenge of war planning?
You know, you shoot the wolf closer to the sled. At one point, the war planning called for 125 days of fighting. It came down to something a little more than a tenth of that. So whereas it I think was in our thoughts, as we get through the worst of the fighting and we see that light at the end of the tunnel, now that we have time to get serious about stabilization operations. It’s not that we didn’t plan for it, because we did. We planned for it before we ever left Kuwait. But those plans were the ones that were on the shelf, while the war plans were the ones that we addressed on a day-in to day-out basis. We talked to a number of people at various think tanks around Washington who commissioned experts and wrote up reports. Consistent among them was the need for a constabulary, for a police force to be in place, for jails and judges and a justice system. All of these experts say that their recommendations were ignored. I can’t talk to that. What I can tell you is that when we went into
