Last night Bill O'Reilly had a fascinating interview with Andrew Apostolou, Director of Research at the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies.

Apostolou pointed out, in response to criticism of the U.S. not having enough "boots on the ground" at the fall of Baghdad, that 60,000 troops had been warplanned to come down from the north, but were diverted by Turkey and hence not available.

He also noted that in not sending large numbers of troops through the northern segment of Iraq, we didn't have the opportunity to fully engage the enemy in the north (including the Sunni triangle) during combat operations, and it is they we are fighting as an insurgency now. Very thought provoking, and a point I haven't seen made elsewhere.

Apostolou's blog is here.