# "Fiasco," by Thomas Ricks

**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fiasco-by-thomas-ricks/385708
**Category:** Great Debates
**Created:** [December 27, 2006, 3:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fiasco-by-thomas-ricks/385708 "2006-12-27T03:46:29Z")
**Posts on this page:** 3
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### Author: ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)
#### Post date: [December 29, 2006, 8:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fiasco-by-thomas-ricks/385708/21 "2006-12-29T20:28:39Z")

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Well, at least W is promising to come up with an occupation plan [any day now.](http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory?id=2757052)

Better late than never.

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### Author: ![ITR\_champion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/c67d28/32.png) [@ITR\_champion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ITR_champion)
#### Post date: [December 29, 2006, 10:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fiasco-by-thomas-ricks/385708/22 "2006-12-29T22:09:14Z")

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[QUOTE=BrainGlutton]  
Better late than never.  
[/QUOTE]

Please stop tempting fate. “Late” could turn out to be a lot worse than “never” in this particular case.

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### Author: ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)
#### Post date: [December 29, 2006, 10:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fiasco-by-thomas-ricks/385708/23 "2006-12-29T22:23:34Z")

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[QUOTE=Quartz]  
… You can’t force different factions to co-exist.  
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Sure you can! You can force them to, so long as they fear you more than they hate each other. Saddam did it quite handily.

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