On Wed, 16 Feb 2005, Devine, James wrote:
The $5.7 billion requested, it adds, will allow the Iraqi government to"begin to train, equip, operate and sustain its own security forces." (Italics added.)
It is no revelation that *the Iraqi government* hasn't been doing any of the training yet.
Kaplan is way overreading. He might be perfectly right about what's going on; I think in the main he is. But he's almost willfully bending this document to back him up. It just doesn't say these things.
Michael
