'Operation Seem Like You're Achieving Something' Stalls

It's like I've been saying all along: We don't have enough U.S. troops to hold Iraqi territory which we seize, and the Iraqi military is too weak, or too unmotivated, to help us. So, we can "surge" with a few thousand more troops, and do short-term Operations here and there with tough, cool-sounding names like "Arrowhead Ripper," but at the end of the day, we've got too few boots on the ground to control Iraq. The insurgents or al Qaeda only have to melt away into areas where we are not, wait us out, then march back in when we leave, since such Operations are not sustainable.

We'd need 300,000 troops on the ground at least, and preferably 500,000, to have a chance of controlling Iraq.

(Any volunteers?...)

General: Iraqi forces may be too weak

By LAUREN FRAYER, Associated Press Writer Sun Jun 24, 6:39 PM ET