yup, it's a difficult tightrope walk going on there.
Unfortunately, if the insurgents blow up a marketplace, the US gets blamed for it. A very tenuous situation to be in.
One could argue that by disbanding the military & police, one inherits their responsibility, that can be debated for years. The unfortunate side effect is that one bad occurance gets more airplay on al jizzoleerra than 100 good things (they learned how to do news from us too well, bad news = great ratings).
If it was total war, they would be completely creamed into the stoneage in about a week. There wouldn't be 2 cinderblocks stuck together, and nobody would have all of their limbs.
unfortunately, that would likely make the "we came there to save you and give you a better life" argument a tad null & void (reason to go there #23).
