Charlie Rose - Thursday -- Post-War Iraq with David Rieff + Fouad Ajami

A DISCUSSION ABOUT POST-WAR IRAQ with
DAVID RIEFF
Author / Journalist
and
FOUAD AJAMI
U.S. News and World Report
Johns Hopkins University

http://slate.msn.com/id/2090852/

David Rieff's Nov. 2 article in the New York Times Magazine offers pieces of an answer. The neoconservative Iraq hawks inside the Pentagon—Paul Wolfowitz, Richard Perle, and Douglas Feith—thought our troops would be welcomed as liberators and that the Iraqi National Congress could run the country for us (a view Gideon Rose demolished in Slate back in April). Wolfowitz, in particular, was known for his view that fixing Iraq would provoke a reverse-domino effect of democratization throughout the Middle East. Those who bought into this wishful thinking didn't want to hear about the potential problems.