Man when Senator McCain asked that General, when we first went in id he EVER consider that this might degenerate into a Civil War, and he paused what seemed an eternity and then answered with a meek, "no"... man o man. And this was the General that reported that in his opinion it could degenerate into a Civil War given the current situations.

Rummy and the boys vastly underestimated how many troops we would need. Thought the Iraqis would shower us with gifts. We could have easily had this country under control with 350,000 ground troops like that one General that got sent away stated we needed from the get go. And the send less than about 1/3. Further reinforces clearly that you need to go whole hog, or not go at all.

Israel faces the same dilemma. They have got to really do some damage on the ground with massive numbers of ground troops. And now it looks like they may have a short time frame. As long as the rockets keep reigning down on Israel I dont see how they leave without a throrough sweep of Southern Lebanon.