Rumsfeld isn't some short-sighted bozo and this war hasn't been a surprise to those who are waging it.
The Administration rightly realized a draft would be not only counter-productive in this modern age of warfare, but the country would not stand for it.
Five years is a long time, and people are understandably tired of spending one-half trillion dollars on something that has seemed to bring them less prosperity and $4/gallon gas prices.
Four hundred thousand Americans died in four years in WWII. Four thousand Americans died in five years fighting in Iraq.
There is still only one superpower on this planet and it continues to be our home address. I don't believe this remains true because this government makes strategic mistakes.
Yes, I agree with you. Shinseki was right about the need for 250,000 soldiers on the ground in Iraq at the outset of the war.