Time - 'There Are No More Troops To Send'

There are no more U.S. troops to send to Iraq.

Congress is allowing Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld to dig in his heels and try to maintain a foreign policy based on a grossly undermanned U.S. military. The key question isn't whether the 1st Cavalry Division is going to get run out of Baghdad—it's not.

The key question is, if you've got 70% of your combat battalions in the U.S. Army deployed in Afghanistan, Iraq, South Korea and elsewhere, can you maintain this kind of muscular presence in that many places? The answer is no. But if we take action now to increase the size of the Army by 80,000 soldiers, we'll be able to handle this global reach.

The key would be to activate nine National Guard brigades in the next 18 months and convert them into active-duty soldiers, allowing the reservists to go back to their communities.

- Morton Abramowitz headed the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. Republican Senator Richard Lugar of Indiana chairs the Foreign Relations Committee. Barry McCaffrey, a retired four-star Army general.

el - Time is showing its hawkish CIA- connected background and calls for an even bigger military.