Guardian Unlimited: Far graver than Vietnam:
"Retired general Joseph Hoare, the former marine commandant and head of US Central Command, told me: 'The idea that this is going to go the way these guys planned is ludicrous. There are no good options. We're conducting a campaign as though it were being conducted in Iowa, no sense of the realities on the ground. It's so unrealistic for anyone who knows that part of the world. The priorities are just all wrong.'"