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<blockquote>War critics who accept any of the three familiar assertions listed above are caught in a dangerous paradox. By suggesting that more troops would have helped create a stable Iraq, they betray a retrospective expectation that large numbers of Iraqis were going to resist."</blockquote> And come to think of it, our war-planners betrayed the same expectation when they built that "Emerald City" and displayed the same incompetence by failing to roof it over.