Quote from james_bond_3rd:
People who deliberately act dumb should be regarded as such.
What would Iraq be if we had double the amount of troops in 2003? In 2004? The last chance we had was at the end of the battle of Falluja, in Dec 2004. If we had twice as many troops, we might had a chance to actually pacify Iraq after the brutal battle to put down the rebellion in Falluja.
Instead, we were simply moving troops from one place to another, while the insurgents just moved the opposite way.
21000 more troops today is too little, too late. We needed at least 150k more troops at least two years ago.
