Let’s say — just, you know, as a hypothetical — that the U.S. has a difficult time restoring electricity for residents of Baghdad. As Tony Snow famously observed, it’s getting up to 130 degrees in the Iraqi capitol right now, and there’s not more than an hour or two of power available a day for, say, a refrigerator or an air conditioner. Knowing that’s the sort of thing that doesn’t incline an Iraqi very well to either the U.S. presence or the Iraqi government, how does the State Department react? According to the Los Angeles Times, the first thing to do is to stop updating Congress about how bad the problem is:
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=180267