Yeah, Mr Limbaugh did not make a good argument. General
Shinseki was correct in his estimate (and I continue to beleive that the Iraq invasion was a good idea), but Bush did not want to (or could not) expend the political capital to deploy more troops than were used. He and Rumsfield attempted to fight the war on the cheap.
One shouldn’t fight a war if (a) political support for it cannot be generated and/or (b) it is to be fought on the cheap.
One shouldn’t fight a war if (a) political support for it cannot be generated and/or (b) it is to be fought on the cheap.
Churchill warned posterity that once a nation chooses to engage in war, the winds of war are unpredictable, e.g., Turkey not allowing POTUS #43 GWB to invade Iraq from their country.
Sun-Tzu also warned that prolonged war weakens a nation - Vietnam ~ 10 years, Afghanistan ~ 11 years. And we finished WWII in ~3.6 years.