[ Your Name ] would like to inform you about this article on Complexity Digest 2004.51 - 18.01 http://comdig.unam.mx/index.php?id_issue=2004.51#19419 20-Dec-2004 [ Your Message ] In Iraq, Less Can Be More, NY Times Excerpts: Even with the world's most advanced military machine at its disposal, the United States is having remarkable difficulty defeating or even containing the relatively small number of Saddam Hussein loyalists, religious extremists and foreign terrorists in Iraq. Thus the plan to gradually turn security matters over to the Iraqis would seem to be doomed from the start. (...) The army was a tool for internal repression under Saddam Hussein, and it should not play a prominent internal security role in a democratic Iraq. Source: In Iraq, Less Can Be More[ http://www.iht.com/articles/2004/12/20/opinion/edkhalil.html ], Peter Khalil, NYTimes/IHT, 04/12/21 You can discuss this article on Articles Forum http://comdig.unam.mx/topic.php?id_article=19419