Don't Expect an Able Iraqi Army Soon

Attached is a very clearheaded, but disturbing analysis of "conventional wisdom" as it applies to our supposed exit strategy for stabilizing Iraq (i.e., more trainers for the Iraqi army, amidst a civil war of which the soldiers cannot help but be a part). A minority of talking heads instead insist that we have to find a way to get the Sunni insurgency under control, because THAT has been the thing that has militarized the Shiites more than anything else.

The author, Andrew Exum, is a bright, earnest, totally stand-up young man whom my oldest son and I met several months ago. He attended my alma mater (Penn), and enlisted into the Army after 9/11 (see David, not EVERYONE from Penn is a raging, flag burning leftist!). Worth a read.
"Don't Expect an Able Iraqi Army Soon"