The American general in charge of training Iraqi troops and police officers offered no assurances that they will be standing up so that we can stand down within any predictable time frame.
Lt. Gen. Martin Dempsey, who's been in charge of training police and soldiers in Iraq for nearly two years, gave no indication at a congressional hearing Tuesday that the Iraqis are performing well enough to start letting some American forces go home.
Dempsey said the Iraqis are making progress in building their military and police forces, but he also described serious problems, including the lack of a database to track whether Iraqis who attack Americans were some of those the U.S. trained.
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"Iraq is an important part of our future," Dempsey said, "and it may be that we have to sacrifice there for some time in order to achieve our objectives, unless the objectives change - and that's not a military decision. That's a political decision."
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