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To: Gondring

I don't think I articulated my question well. What changes in the conditions did he fail to recognize and get beyond?


139 posted on 11/13/2006 12:12:47 AM PST by James Ewell Brown Stuart (Sorry, we don't want to stick around to see if we win; we'd rather vote ourselves off the island.)
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To: James Ewell Brown Stuart
What changes in the conditions did he fail to recognize and get beyond?

I think that it's pretty obvious that the "Mission Accomplished" phase ended and we moved into an occupation/nation-building phase, where our primary combat element was counterinsurgency.

142 posted on 11/13/2006 5:56:58 AM PST by Gondring (I'll give up my right to die when hell freezes over my dead body!)
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