>>" who uncovered the boiling pot of conflicts in the most difficult region of the very complicated Middle East - without a formula, the tools or even an idea of what to do.

It could be that for the American public, the elections next year will resolve the issue of what to do with the troops, and that a Democratic government will probably bring them home on a timetable more or less agreed upon by the generals; and second, with the rulers in Baghdad.

It's more than likely that for the generals and politicians in Turkey and the Ayatollahs and Revolutionary Guards in Iran: the hour to pick up the debris and correct the chaos left by the Americans has only just begun."<<