Intresting info Gel, good post!

In your opinion was the idea unworkable from the start ? was iot the beginning phase of the occupation being horribly handled that messed it up ? or is it the fact the military had to pull out because of political pressure at home ?

Or maybe some combanation of these factors... ?

For a number of reasons i was against the war (no need to go through that again though) but after we 'broke it' i felt we had an obligation to 'fix it'. Am i maybe too focused on what was the right thing to do and fixing it is not really a practical option ?

Or could we have maybe with big sacrifices have made it work ?

Very sorry to hear about your foot btw, hope it heals as much as possible!