Acidus wrote:
he ducked a question about how many resources the US is spending on training new Iraqi solders to kill the new insurgents as opposed to cutting out the middle man and doing that ourselves.

AFAIK, the whole point is to cut in the "middle man" so that we can leave and local forces can handle security.

I'm not such a crazy lefty that I don't realize that Oil is a strategic resource and we want to protect our resources (especially when "our" resources are in other country's borders), but when the General in charge of all military operations in the Middle East says that safe guarding the flow of oil is "why" we have almost a 1/4 million troops there is a little shocking.

Its their resources... I'm not sure why this is shocking. If the oil can't move, the money can't move. If the money can't move, the country won't have an economy. If the country doesn't have an economy, it can't become self-sufficient...

RE: NewsHour: Interview with Gen. John Abizaid