By maintaining the current course, defeat is assured. Patton and McArthur and Pershing and Sherman and Washington would be horrified at the military position we find ourselves in.
"[Somalia] started off as a humanitarian mission and it changed into a nation-building mission, and that's where the mission went wrong. The mission was changed. And as a result, our nation paid a price. And so I don't think our troops ought to be used for what's called nation-building. I think our troops ought to be used to fight and win war. I think our troops ought to be used to help overthrow the dictator when it's in our best interests."
-Gov. George W. Bush, October 11, 2000