Like Feckless and Cruel Father, Like Feckless and Cruel Son

I just saw a recent interview with Thomas Pickering, US Ambassador to the UN from 1989-92, in which he says this:

PICKERING: We had wonderfully prepared combat activities, and we had no absolutely idea about what to do in a post-combat phase. Q: You mean there was no policy. PICKERING: No policy, no real settled interests. No examination of what we should do, no examination of how we should deal with the future... Q: Deploying hundreds of thousands of troops without any idea of what you're going to do? PICKERING: Yep, yep. Fairly convincingly so.

The funny thing is, he's actually talking about the aftermath of the Gulf War, when George H.W. Bush called for an Iraqi uprising against Saddam and then stood by and let them all get slaughtered. Apparently planning for the future is not a real strength of the Bush family's.

Below is the Pickering interview, which I've snipped from the excellent documentary Saddam Hussein: The Trial You Will Never See. You can see it in its entirety on youtube here.