One question we must answer today is whether the forces we are confronting in Iraq are of sufficient organizational complexity to justify the name:  guerilla army.  I think we are starting to see that it is, at least in the Sunni triangle.  Another question is whether Iraq is culturally ready for a secular democracy.  The evidence is mounting that it is not ready — at least not across the whole of Iraq. 

If the answers above are true, what are our options? [John Robb's Weblog