  Dear Ken, About That Cakewalk... What’s Our Biggest
Problem…the Insurgency or Bush?   In his article Adelman
disparaged Brookings Institution military analysts and the
redoubtable Edward Luttwak for "fear-mongering." Adelman
dismissed concerns about US casualties and unilateral action as
misguided worries that inspire inaction when it was perfectly
clear, to Adleman at least, that Iraq’s Saddam "Hussein
constitutes the number one threat against American security and
civilization."   The Washington establishment must be wondering
today how it was convinced into making such a fatal mistake.
Iraq had no weapons of mass destruction. Saddam Hussein had no
terrorist links or involvement in the September 11 terror
attack. US casualties (dead and wounded) now stand at 10 percent
of the US invasion force. A few thousand lightly armed
insurgents have tied down eight US divisions. Iraq’s
infrastructure lies in ruins. Fallujah, once a city of 300,000,
has been destroyed. The US has lost control of the roads, and
most o