Fiasco

"Fiasco" is a bit harsh considering the source: out of power and hiding in the mountains.

Taliban promises U.S. 'fiasco' in Afghanistan 2009

"Fiasco" is essentially a military history of the war; Shadid focuses exclusively on the sentiments of the Iraqi people themselves.

Archive 2007-06-01 David 2007

"Fiasco" is essentially a military history of the war; Shadid focuses exclusively on the sentiments of the Iraqi people themselves.

Finished David 2007

The thing that enraged me when I read this in Fiasco is that Franks wouldn’t issue goddamn orders, let alone the whole PowerPoint issue.

Matthew Yglesias » The Military’s PowerPoint Problem 2010

I think before this Government Funded Fiasco is passed, someone needs to insert into the bill that forces our Dear Leaders to disclose what the burn rate is EACH and EVERY month!!!

Pelosi: When I take health care bill to the floor, 'it will win' 2009

I think before this Government Funded Fiasco is passed, someone needs to insert into the bill that forces our Dear Leaders to disclose what the burn rate is EACH and EVERY month!!!

Obama challenges reform detractors to explain themselves 2009

The main conclusion I have drawn from its success, as well as from reading the book Fiasco, is that the catostrophic levels of violence in Iraq were preventable.

Matthew Yglesias » “Winning” The War 2008

NOTE Tom Ricks reports in Fiasco that only a half a dozen members of congress actually read the classified NIE.

Matthew Yglesias » Debate 2007

Fiasco is a Kafka-like account, almost jovial in its unrelentingly pessimistic clarity, of the

Imre Kertész: A Medium for the Spirit of Auschwitz 2003

So far, most of the books written on the subject -- from Bob Woodward's "State of Denial" to Tom Ricks's "Fiasco" -- have painted a picture of an incompetent and paranoid administration fixated on all the wrong enemies for all the wrong reasons.

The Real Plan of Attack 2008