If the United States Marine Corps can take an eighteen year old kid right out of Burger King, and within 16 weeks, train him to be a fighting machine, why can't we do it with the Iraqis after two years?
The answer is simple: The Iraqis lack the will to succeed. The insurgants can strike at will killing anyone they so choose. The Iraqis police and military are walking a fine line between the different sects and will fall on the side of the winner of the civil war that is sure to come.
False analogy.
The Marine Corps is an existing instituion, with everything that carries with it.
We're talking about building an entirely new Army here/