''Rebuild or Retreat: America's Strategic Dilemma''

[Robbien]

(PINR) -- The most severe consequence of America's failed intervention in Iraq is its exposure of American military limitations and vulnerabilities.

The failures of the intervention are manifold. Some of them can be chalked up to poor planning and excessive optimism -- both fueled by utopian neo-conservative ideology -- but others have revealed structural weaknesses.

Just to name a few of the latter: reliance on private contractors to perform key missions at inflated prices, flawed intelligence, overuse of reserve troops, redeployment of troops from South Korea and extensions of the duration of combat duty. All of the foregoing point to the same root problem: the United States military is underforced for any major project of nation building in absolute numbers and, more importantly, in the distribution of specialties.

http://pinr.com/report.php?ac=view_report&report_id=179&language_id=1

[SoCalDem]

1. We'll just do what we have done in recent years

Leave and toss money at them as we exit..

[Robbien]

2. Leave and PROMISE to toss money at them

It is all about the show. Forget the follow through.

[iconoclastic cat]

4. Toss money, pick their pockets when they bend to gather it, then leave

[teryang]

3. 500 billion a year not enough?

The greatest expenditure of national defense dollars since the peak of the Vietnam war is a total failure because of the ambition, corruption, greed and incompetence of national leadership.

Neo-cons are not utopians. Don't get propaganda confused with ideology.

The title of this article should be when you're in a hole, keep digging.

[uptown ruler]

5. lets get out...

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