Stephen Biddle, military analyst at the Council on Foreign Relations and enthusiastic promoter of the Anbar Province strategy that is all in vogue these days, explains the path that he imagines us to be on in Iraq:
Biddle also said (again, expressing his personal view) that the strategy in Iraq would require the presence of roughly 100,000 American troops for 20 years—and that, even so, it would be a "long-shot gamble."
That's a big investment for a "long shot gamble," I think.
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