[Sam Cree]

“I would look at an entirely new strategy,” former House Speaker Newt Gingrich said. “We have clearly failed in the last three years to achieve the kind of outcome we want.”

I haven't been able to see that we really had a strategy at all the last couple years. Which might be the problem.

[oceanview]

we had a strategy - it didn't work. we gave iraq a democracy and thought they were going to be able to ramp up the institutions needed to sustain it in a 12-18 month time period, especially regarding security.

it didn't work out. now, we are in the "re-plan" phase, and that re-plan may take many forms.