That is an outright incorrect statement. When you occupy a nation it is the responsibility of the occupying power to preserve law and order. It was just what the USA did after it occupied liberated Europe and Asia after WW2.
It is what the Army and the National Guard have done inside the USA itself.
Finally, you missed my point which is that allowing an atmosphere of looting and lawlessness to fester we allowed the Iraqis to become emboldened enough to later challenge us. Lastly, allowing such a lawless atmosphere made the Iraqis consider our forces useless when it comes to their defense from men with guns and when you have men with guns you either fight them or allow yourself to be ruled by them and that is what happened.
You sound like the village idiot trying to use the big words and ideas he reads in a book. Before one assumes the responsibility of an occupying power, one has to have acheived the authority of an occupying power, which means having achieved the defeat and surrender of the enemy forces. Until the insurgents have been supressed we are merely a combatant in country and not an occupier.
Allow, allow, allow .... To allow means somehow that you had the writ and power to stop it and by official decree decided that looting and lawlessness are ok.
You really are nincompoop.
To which you replied That is an outright incorrect statement.
You get the prize for being the dumbest idiot on this form. Destroying the enemy is exactly what the military's job is. Until his ability and will to fight are overcome there is nothing else.
So tell us, in your own grade school words, what is your problem with how Rumsfeld is running the war. Don't stand behind some fancy book title or what someone else tells us. Come out like the whimp of a child you are, look is straight in the eye and give it your best shot, however meagre it is likely to be.
Bunk...there was looting in post WWII Germany too. You cannot also compare a riot here in the US to a real live WAR in Iraq. I want my soldiers to destroy the enemy and not be worried about the dangerous enemy lurking about. Remember, the US did not have complete control of the country yet. They just started entering Baghdad to look for and destroy the enemy!!!!! Listen...I stand by what I said. I want my soldiers to go out and destroy the freaking enemy. Not worry also about stopping people from stealing lamps. The US started restoring order after a few days after it became clear the concentrated enemy resistance in Baghdad had collapsed.