Vietnamization of Iraq

An op-ed in Wednesday's Washington Times—traditionally a Bush-friendly paper—heavily criticizes the administration's recent handling of the Iraq issue. $Q: The consuming issue has become the war in Iraq and the strategy for ensuring a successful outcome. The major complaint from both sides of the aisle is the administration's failure or reluctance to state an explicit strategy and present to the public relatively frequent and objective situation reports of where things are going well, where they are not, and how deficiencies and mistakes are being corrected.