Four years in to the war that Bush chose to start, in the middle of the escalation of that war, General Petraeus speaks:
"There is no military solution to a problem like that in Iraq, to the insurgency of Iraq," Petraeus said.Four years later, we've spent a lot of money and destroyed way too many lives in war that has no military solution.
"Military action is necessary to help improve security ... but it is not sufficient."