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Published: July 13, 2008
Army learns from mistakes
By David Ignatius
WASHINGTON The U.S. Army has done something remarkable in its new history of the disastrous first 18 months of the American occupation of Iraq : It has conducted a rigorous self-critique of how bad decisions were made, so that the Army won't make them again.

Civilian leaders are still mostly engaged in a blame game about Iraq, pointing fingers to explain what went wrong and to justify their own actions. That's ce...

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