he couldn't very well do what he and his Army had not been trained or equipped to do due to major error on the part of 25 years of US leader failures and US Army senior leader intransigence with respect to FID and COIN

In fairness to President Bush; we had just spent 18 months watching LTG Ric Sanchez and Co. dig a hole and keep shoveling. The buck stops with him and all that...

Have I ranted about DOPMA and the "everybody can do everything equally well" myth lately???