TIA,

1) The course you should be staying

The United States of America plus a coalition involving some 43 other countries intervened militarily in Iraq. I personally thought that on the information available at the time they were perfectly correct in doing so. That having been said, predominantly the United States of America and the United Kingdom started something and they are honour bound and obliged to finish it, not turn and scuttle ignominiously for home the minute that things appear to be getting tough. That is the course you should be staying.

2) What exactly is it that "needs to be done"

Specifically if I could answer that I would command a far higher day rate than I do at present and I would have a much larger office and staff. But of one thing I am absolutely certain, no threat to the US will ever be solved by you guys turning and running from it.

Another thing that "you Americans" need to do is come to some form of realisation as to what you have actually got involved in and differentiate between what was identified as a potential threat in 2002 and what continuing threat remains to be dealt with. The latter is very real and should under no circumstances be dismissed lightly.