Daily Archives: April 23, 2020

Fighting the Last War

By | April 23, 2020

[April 23, 2020]  In December 2004, I had the opportunity to interview captured Iraqi President Saddam Hussein.  During that brief encounter at his prison cell at Camp Victory in Baghdad, I asked him one question, “Why did the Americans defeat your army?”  Honestly, I wasn’t expecting an answer.  But he smiled and told me that “defeat” is a… Read More »