Zeev's Turnips Talk Politics (ZTTP)

[Rick Faurot]

Bush's Lost Year by James Fallows
The Atlantic Monthly / October 2004
By deciding to invade Iraq, the Bush Administration decided not to do many other things: not to reconstruct Afghanistan, not to deal with the threats posed by North Korea and Iran, and not to wage an effective war on terror. An inventory of opportunities lost

http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/prem/200410/fallows?pt=-3