marct said:
Third, the US can not win the GWOT without large amounts of support from other nations, especially in the form of economic "support" (loosely construed).
This is what Rand's "Beginners Guide to Nation-building" says more generally under "Institutional Frameworks and Consultative Forums" page 25 from this link - http://www.rand.org/pubs/monographs/2007/RAND_MG557.pdf

The framework contains Iran, Saudis, Iran etc. Last "Foreign Policy" talks about winners in Iraqi war - http://www.foreignpolicy.com/story/c...?story_id=3704
Those states-nations are mentioned as winners. Rand's theory plus FP article makes me very pessimistic

Here is also price tag for war - http://www.foreignpolicy.com/Ning/ar...159/pn-159.pdf