Quote Originally Posted by Steve the Planner View Post
We cannot be both the occupier and fill the shoes of the occupied. If they have problems, they must find solutions to them.
That is exactly what the Air Force believes or at they used to. I have a copy of a letter to the editor of our local paper from just after the overthrow of Sadam where Colonel Warden tried to warn whoever would listen what would happen if we disbanded the Iraqi military and implemented some kind of de-bathistazation(spelling?) program. Pretty much fell on deaf ears.