TUESDAY, JUNE 17, 2008 War Policy with Douglas Feith: Chapter 2 of 5 Feith discusses the war blunders. First, the failure to provide adequate security forces after the fall of Saddam. Feith describes how this grew out of a sense that a build-up of U.S. forces would play to enemy propaganda. Second, the decision to maintain an occupation government in Iraq for over a year. Feith says this came counter to the idea of “liberation, not occupation.” PERMALINK About Douglas Feith Douglas Feith is a professor at Georgetown University and a visiting fellow at the Hoover Institution. From 2001 to 2005 he served as undersecretary of Defense for policy, reporting directly to the secretary of Defense. He is the author of War and Decision: Inside the Pentagon at the Dawn of the War on Terrorism (Harper, 2008).

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