Harley,

Shinseki, Zinni, Schwarzkopf have no expirence with such a rebuild. We took the ground in the fastest push in military history. The issues have risen out of the occupation and the rebuild. So thier opinions are speculative and in the rearview mirror. Reverse the roles and you would get a similar outcome based on military planning conventions. Looking back and assigning blame serves what purpose? Political only after the lesson is learned. The pentagon freely admits now we were not trained properly as an occupational force and we have a need for several 100k peacekeepers in the future if we are to go it alone. . As I have said time and time again. The UN Security council countries can only benefit by not helping they new it before the announcement of the war they know it now. They had zero incentive to help. Clearly showing thier lack of concern for the people of iraq before during and after this war. Any humnitarion country in this world should be concerned about a safe Iraq going forward for the people of Iraq if for no other purpose. They stood ont he sidelines for 12 years and allowed the cesspool to fester and they contiune to do the same. not people I want on my side