If your right, do we send in more troops now? Or stick it out with what we have and let everything keep going along as it is.
Probably no more troops. But we’ve never just, “let everything keep going along as it is”. We and the insurgents are constantly and radically changing tactics and adjusting to each others changes. The side that can adjust the fastest, best and longest wins.
I think the author’s speaking to a window in which the enemy had a cover of chaos to regroup, like a cancer that had been partially cut out and not immediately followed up with chemo.
The cancer has now spread. The Iraqis are stuck with what the disease left them and are going to have to fight it to some kind of acceptable resolution themselves with our help. The insurgency is too deeply integrated in their body now for us operate and to carve it out externally with more troops.