re: #30 Killgore Trout
I think that’s a bit of revisionist history. They had a plan, some things work and some things don’t but they eventually got things working there.
They developed a plan that ran completely counter to the advise of numerous experts. For example, multiple military analyses said that dismissing Iraq’s military would be a mistake.
They employed cronies, novices, to run the transition.
Defending their “planning” is defending proven incompetence.