Once again they rehash the obvious. Of course more troops should have been there. They were not. We can't turn back time and change that.

I also agree with Jones_RE about victory. How we define our victory may be meaningless in the context of our enemies' view of victory. The US often seems adrift when victory is something other than (to paraphrase Conan) "to crush our enemies, see them driven before us, and hear the lamentations of their women." If we're pushed out of the total victory plane, we suddenly become clueless.

Methinks yet again we're spending too much time looking at our definition and not enough looking at that of our enemies.