The Long Road Home: A Story of War and Family, by Martha Raddatz, brings back those queasy days when the war in Iraq started to go south (2004) and troika of Bush, Chaney, and Rumsfeld emerged with pie on their respective faces.
It would be funny, if the cost was not so high. All three sent our men and woman into a war which they were not prepared, and are responsible for their deaths and injuries.
Raddaz writes compellingly of the cost of this kind of disaster from the ground. In many ways, her book is not unlike the events of the Battle of Mogadishu chronicled in Black Hawk Down: our troops did not have enough equipment, the right equipment, spotty air support and bad and misleading intelligence.
And because of this, a lot of people died
It would be funny, if the cost was not so high. All three sent our men and woman into a war which they were not prepared, and are responsible for their deaths and injuries.
Raddaz writes compellingly of the cost of this kind of disaster from the ground. In many ways, her book is not unlike the events of the Battle of Mogadishu chronicled in Black Hawk Down: our troops did not have enough equipment, the right equipment, spotty air support and bad and misleading intelligence.
And because of this, a lot of people died
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