Another Good Op-Ed from Wall Street Journal

Eliot Cohen, Professor at the Nitze School at Hopkins, asks us to look at our failures as well as our successes relative to Iraq and, most importantly, to acknowledge in clear language the fact that we have failed and we have succeeded. He asks us to “honor the 8,000 families of dead and wounded American soldiers by facing the unpleasant truths, because even if blunders characterize all wars, blunders they remain”.

A basic management principle: the first step is fixing a problem is to recognize it. It would be nice is our country adopted it.