[Alberta's Child]

We're trained as infantrymen," Captain Stewart Glenn said. "But here we are doing civil administration and trying to get the milk factory up and running."

"We make up all this stuff as we go," Lieutenant Mike Barefoot added.

So much for Bush's 2000 campaign promise to avoid using the military for silly nation-building campaigns.

[kas2591]

“No plan survives contact with the enemy.”
Field Marshal Helmuth von Moltke

[jpl]

In my opinion, it wouldn't be so bad if we weren't trying to run the world on a shoestring military.

If we're going to be doing this kind of stuff with any chance of long-term success, our military needs to be bigger than it presently is. And I mean a lot bigger, not just a few thousand troops.