PBS Frontline – Thomas E. Ricks, the Post’s Pentagon correspondent, has long covered the Pentagon and U.S. military. Since the war’s official end in spring 2003 he has visited Iraq several times. In this interview, he discusses Rumsfeld’s personality and leadership at the Pentagon and his push to transform the way the military thinks and fights. Ricks also talks about the many ways it went wrong for the U.S. in the aftermath of the Iraq war. “I think in one way or another, we, the United States, are stuck in the Middle East in a way that few of us anticipated,” he says. “Ö We are the dog that caught the car. ??? We may just be there for decades.”
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