'Squandered Victory' and 'Losing Iraq': Now What?

"COULD the administration have chosen a different course in Iraq that would today have the country farther down the road to popular government and cost fewer lives? Two new books -- among the first ''insider'' accounts by former Iraq advisers -- find the White House guilty of an incompetent occupation. Representative government may, just possibly, still take hold in Mesopotamia, but neither Larry Diamond, a researcher at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University who was called by the national security adviser, Condoleezza Rice, to temporary service in Baghdad in early 2004, nor David L. Phillips, a fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations who served as an adviser to the State Department before and after the fall of Saddam Hussein, are at all optimistic."
NYT

Somehow it's seen "as a bad thing" that we are not proficient occupiers.
Would they all prefer that we were great occupiers?

Thank God for the small miracles.