We won the conventional war three years ago.
Ever since then we've been trying to turn Iraq into a Jeffersonian democracy which is like trying to turn a sow's ear into a silk purse.
It can't be done and that's what Kissinger is talking about.
If Bush had half a clue, after taking Baghdad he'd have turned the country over to one of Saddam's generals and then told the man to behave himself otherwise we'd come back and chase him into a hole too.
Quick and dirty, that's how it should have been handled from beginning to end
