Lind should realize that Phase III, as he calls it, will be a fight between the re-created Iraqi national army and the non-Iraqi terrorists (Al Qaeda). I expect that the US & Coalition forces will be largely withdrawn from the country or moved to remote cantonments where security can be maintained.
But then Bill Lind is among those Democratic-party advisors (he's a former Gary Hart staffer) who are rooting for the US to fail.
But, then, there are those Islamists who are trying to create a religious war. And, then, again, there are all those other factions who only want to exploit the oil buck.
Look at those clinton successes, Kosovo, Haiti, Lewenski, and etc....Lewenski had a generational aspect, didn't she?