{"id":1187,"date":"2004-10-03T01:13:39","date_gmt":"2004-10-03T05:13:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wordpress\/2004\/10\/mixed_up_doctrines\/"},"modified":"2004-10-03T01:13:39","modified_gmt":"2004-10-03T05:13:39","slug":"mixed_up_doctrines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2004\/10\/mixed_up_doctrines\/","title":{"rendered":"Mixed Up Doctrines"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thomas Friedman is back from hiatus and has a pretty good assessment of the Bush administration&#8217;s <a title=\"Iraq: Politics or Policy?\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2004\/10\/03\/opinion\/03friedman.html?ex=1254542400&#038;en=d8714d0e66000806&#038;ei=5090&#038;partner=rssuserland\">handling of Iraq<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>What happened? The Bush team got its doctrines mixed up: it applied the Powell Doctrine to the campaign against John Kerry &#8211; &#8220;overwhelming force&#8221; without mercy, based on a strategy of shock and awe at the Republican convention, followed by a propaganda blitz that got its message across in every possible way, including through distortion. If only the Bush team had gone after the remnants of Saddam&#8217;s army in the Sunni Triangle with the brutal efficiency it has gone after Senator Kerry in the Iowa-Ohio-Michigan triangle. If only the Bush team had spoken to Iraqis and Arabs with as clear a message as it did to the Republican base. No, alas, while the Bush people applied the Powell Doctrine in the Midwest, they applied the Rumsfeld Doctrine in the Middle East. And the Rumsfeld Doctrine is: &#8220;Just enough troops to lose.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Priorities are priorities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2004\/10\/mixed_up_doctrines\/\" rel=\"bookmark\" title=\"Permalink to Mixed Up Doctrines\"><p>Thomas Friedman is back from hiatus and has a pretty good assessment of the Bush administration&#8217;s handling of Iraq: What happened? The Bush team got its doctrines mixed up: it applied the Powell Doctrine to the campaign against John Kerry &#8211; &#8220;overwhelming force&#8221; without mercy, based on a strategy of shock and awe at the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1187","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"h-entry","8":"hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1187","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1187"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1187\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}