'Plan B was to make Plan A work'
The Bush administration's dysfunctional
aversion to planning is examined. ... For the record, Plan A is not the current surge in Iraq. Plan A was the original occupation plan that didn't have any contingency plan. Plan B was all the wasted years in trying to make Plan A work. Finally, Plan C, the current surge plan, was implemented. So we're really talking about a Plan D to make Plan C work -- while others outside the administration discuss contingency Plan E and, logically, Plan F etc. ... This article finally nails it for me: This is the worst presidency of my lifetime.