War Czar: No “Purely Military” or “American” Solutions

Pressed by Sen. Carl Levin (D-MI), chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, Lieutenant General Doug Lute turned a question on his areas of dissent on Iraq into a riff on his “personal lessons” from the war. Of particular significance: There is “no purely military” solution in Iraq, Lute said, nor is there an “American-only” solution.