The author is correct. The overpower, demonize and purge strategy has failed the people in Washington on this country's foreign misadventures. We've lost 2 wars in 20 years with it, rather than try to use diplomacy and straight talk with our opponents, but you can't fix stupid. "Paul Bremer's first step was Provisional Authority Order Number 1, issued on May 16th. Order Number 1 banned the Sunni-dominated Baathist Party which had run Iraq for decades. The previous temporary governor of Iraq, General