Time quote rerun

I thought I'd repost this quote from last night from a Time magazine "day in the life piece" in Ramadi. I think it's significant and I don't want it to get lost.

The bigger problem, though, is one that few in the military command want to hear: there aren't enough troops to do the job. .... But while Gronski says his fighting strength is "appropriate," other commanders bristle at the limitations. "I can't believe it each time the Secretary of Defense talks about reducing force," says a senior U.S. officer. War planners in Iraq say just getting a handle on Ramadi demands three times as many soldiers as are there now.

Several U.S. commanders say they won't ask superiors for more troops or plan large-scale operations because doing so would expose problems in the U.S.'s strategy that no one wants to acknowledge. "It's what I call the Big Lie," a high-ranking U.S. commander told TIME.