Rummy and Tommy's dangerous obsession.

• Author: Peters, Charles
• Position: Tilting at Windmills - Brief article

Another new book about our follies in Iraq, Cobra 2, by Michael Gordon and Lt. Gen. (ret.) Bernard Trainor, makes clear that both Donald Rumsfeld and Tommy Franks were obsessed with demonstrating that Baghdad could be taken faster and with smaller forces than many military experts thought prudent. They were right about that, but unfortunately it made them not want to face the danger of bypassing fedayeen irregulars along the way. They were warned that these...