http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=68&ncid=716&e=16&u=/nyt/20030718/ts_nyt/lonelyatthetopWASHINGTON, July 17 The guerrilla war brewing in Iraq (news - web sites) is just one reason the American deployment there is shaping up to be larger and longer than anticipated. Another is the tepid international support for the Bush administration's military campaign to topple Saddam Hussein (news - web sites).
Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld said last week that he hoped to enlist as many as 30,000 troops from 49 nations. That is the much advertised coalition of the willing and able that administration officials are hoping can help stabilize Iraq.
The problem, however, is that many of the recruits the Pentagon (news - web sites) has tried to line up so far appear to fall into two categories: the not so willing and the not that able.
India, for example, balked this week at sending peacekeeping troops to Iraq. That was a setback not only because the Indians could have sent thousands of soldiers but because the Indians were expected to provide a division, a unit with an established system of command and control that would have been assigned its own area of responsibility. The Indians were able but not willing, at least not yet.
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