I read this letter to the editor/opinion on April 16th when it published and consider blogging it and then didn't. Ever since it has been on my mind. Retired GEN Sheehan was asked to be the "War Czar" overseeing the situations in Iraq and Afghanistan and he said no thank you. Succinctly, he said exactly this:
What I found in discussions with current and former members of this administration is that there is no agreed-upon strategic view of the Iraq problem or the region. In my view, there are essentially three strategies in play simultaneously.
He goes on to explain each of these three theories, but I think he does a very good job getting the root of this problem. Further, I think this permeates to the lowest levels of the force in Iraq, and certainly though the Iraqi government. Simply, know one knows exactly what they are supposed to be accomplishing.
