I don't know; I certainly wasn't one of his advisors.
If we kept it intact and told them that there's the new sheriff in town, they'll be able to keep violence under control.
Hindsight is always 20/20, I guess. It' hard to say, though. Al Qaeda sent its A-Team in here right away and that may have happened anyway.
I mean, we did not really have a plan to combat an insurgency once it appears. The only one who had an idea was General Petraeus and we'll see if it's not too late for him to salvage what's left in Iraq.
But you're in the country experiencing it all so your words carry more weight than mine.