Like a lot of Americans this week, I have been reading Thomas Ricks' Fiasco: The American Military Adventure in Iraq. Ricks is chief Pentagon correspondent of The Washington Post. Two lengthy excerpts that appeared in the paper last week helped catapult his book to the top of the best-seller lists. His first-paragraph summary of the story so far:
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Gauging the Costs of the War
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Like a lot of Americans this week, I have been reading Thomas Ricks' Fiasco: The American Military Adventure in Iraq. Ricks is chief Pentagon correspondent of The Washington Post. Two lengthy excerpts that appeared in the paper last week helped catapult his book to the top of the best-seller lists. His first-paragraph summary of the story so far: