Sunday, October 02, 2005

Lt. Gen. Patraeus at Princeton

Tigerhawk reports. I missed it (and also Secretary Chertoff's talk) because, well, I'm a grad student. Those experiments won't run themselves! Needless to say, it's good reading, primarily because it gets into all the details that the MSM should be reporting but doesn't - either because it's boring or because it could be seen as positive coverage of the war.
Best part was that Gen. Patraeus quoted TE Lawrence - just because Lawrence of Arabia is one of my favorite movies. It's relevant, so I'll post it also:
We believed what TE Lawrence said: “Do not try to do too much with your own hands. Better the Arabs do it tolerably than that you do it perfectly. It is their war, and you are to help them, not win it for them."
Yep.

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