Taking both sides with Rice

It's always easy to take both sides of an argument. Condoleezza Rice believes the United States forces and intelligence should have focused more on the provinces around Baghdad and not just the capital. Later, she mentioned it's too early to judge the progress or success of the war. Are we talking stakes in a segment or the whole? It's not a scale. Foreign policy is something that needs to be set in stone prior to engagements, even more so in a non-western environment where democracy is not fundamental. Imperialism is driven by this concept and the ineptitude of those in charge when pushing different customs often presents a problem. Rice said that the United States entered Iraq because of threat, not to stabilize a democracy. It seems to be the same thing, just in a different vernacular. That is exactly what happened. We have pushed customs, our customs.