The last refuge of pro-Iraq-war neolefties is the theory promoted by Charles Ferguson and George Packer in ‘No End in Sight’ that everything would have gone great in Iraq if we’d just done the invasion right, and, notably, if we’d not disbanded the Iraqi army.
Last night on ‘Hardball,’ Congressman and prez-candidate Duncan Hunter took this claim on, noting that there had been "11,000 Sunni generals" in the Iraqi army. I note that Gen. Petraeus made this comment the other day in testimony. I.e., How do you ask such a force to legitimately lead a Shia-majority nation? How do the neolibs answer this?
