They think things look pretty bad.

Gen. Merrill “Tony” McPeak
Air Force chief of staff, 1990-94:
We have a force in Iraq that’s much too small to stabilize the situation.

Adm. Stansfield Turner
NATO Allied commander for Southern Europe, 1975-77; CIA director, 1977-81:
I think we are in a real mess.

Lt. Gen. William Odom
Director of the National Security Agency, 1985-88:
It’s a huge strategic disaster, and it will only get worse.

Read the whole thing, and weep.