Wednesday, April 09, 2003

Peter Jennings is suggesting that the war so far has been a cakewalk, but his military consultants are having none of it. With a military machine like ours, nothing is a cakewalk. Not even training exercises. I suppose that in comparison with earlier battles like Normandy, Iwo Jima, etc., this looks like a cakewalk, but in terms of effort and expense, it looks like the result of a lot of lessons learned and a lot of preparation. Cakewalks are like that. You don't see all the practice leading up to the performance.

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