Once again Carraig Daire Weblog has found important news in an international paper that doesn't seem widely available in the U.S. papers. And once again I can't help taking a different slant on it than they do.

"Garner is 'beginning the process of thinking through all things necessary for Iraq,' Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld told a Reserve Officers Association conference in Washington on Monday."

The Pakistani online newspaper Dawn reports on a retired American general appointed to plan the post-Saddam future of Iraq. It might have been better to make sure we had a plan in place before putting ourselves in a position where it would be almost impossible to decide the cure is worse than the disease.