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New leadership in Iraq Posted: November 18, 20031:00 a.m. Eastern © 2003 WorldNetDaily.com President Bush is reportedly not pleased with the job Paul Bremer is doing in Iraq. That's progress. It's time to rethink Bremer. It's time to rethink the qualifications needed for the person leading the rebuilding of Iraq. It's time to rethink what has worked and not worked in the past in such situations. When the U.S. conquered Japan in 1945, we didn't send a career bureaucrat to turn the country around, to change the culture, to rebuild the economy and the nation's infrastructure as rapidly as possible. We sent...

Self-deception, big-time. One of the central themes of The War Against the Terror Masters is that we weren't ready for September 11 because the intelligence community did not want to see it coming. Over many years, people in the field and analysts in Washington and Langley had seen careers ruined because somebody tried to warn the policymakers that trouble was coming. The policymakers didn't want to hear that sort of thing because they were not prepared to do the unpleasant things that knowledge of the real situation required. The ultimate example was the Clinton White House, where the top people...