"I will trust Secretaty Rumsfield and the officers of our military to decide what and when we need to win in Iraq."
The people in the DOD who make the decisions have forgotten or never knew how to win a war. The United States has NEVER succeeded in a war unless they dealt a CRUSHING blow to the enemy. This did not occur in Korea, Vietnam, Afghanistan and, now, Iraq. Each of these wars has, or will at some point in the future, come back to bite us in the butt.
The true military men in the DOD should have been allowed to run the war as they saw fit. Neither Bush nor Rumsfeld fits into this category. From whomever the general battle plans trickle down, be it Bush, Cheny, Rumsfeld; there lies the problem of why the war in Iraq is floundering. If the military were allowed to fight the war the way that they were taught, none of this would even be discussed right now.
"If the military were allowed to fight the war the way that they were taught, none of this would even be discussed right now."
Agreed, but wouldn't the military need to be in charge of the US foreign policy and government for this to come to pass?
Do you think that the current administration refuses to listen to the military personnel opinions?