"There was a period in the beginning when there was a ‘golden hour’." said Petraues deconstructing, in one short sentence, the Iraq narrative. It speaks volumes about Franks, Bremmer, Powell, Rumsfeld, Cheney and Bush.
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“There
is a period of omnipotence. There was a period in the beginning when there was
a ‘golden hour’. Inevitably, it does not matter how much you were viewed as a
liberator, over time you will be seen as an occupier. The interesting dynamic
here is that we have been here long enough to become liberators again for
certain sectors of the population, those that are affected by extremism.”
Interview
by Richard Beeston with General David Petraeus in
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