And thank you folcwine for posting this.
It's the most honest look at our current situation in Iraq and where we're going with it.

And Lt. General Odom is a West Point Graduate who was the Army's Senior Intelligence Officer for several years (1981-1985), and was also head of the NSA for several years (1985-1988.) I think he would know what he is talking about strategically.

Makes GWB and his handlers look like the fools they are, and for what they are.
>"Any new strategy that does realistically promise to achieve regional stability at a cost we can prudently bear, and does not regain the confidence and support of our allies, is doomed to failure. To date, I have seen no awareness that any political leader in this country has gone beyond tactical proposals to offer a different strategic approach to limiting the damage in a war that is turning out to be the greatest strategic disaster in our history."

I read it over my dinner. It's certainly food for thought and grist for the <mill.>