Our troops are in a shooting gallery with no clear goal, and lacking the manpower to achieve one anyway, and they face an increasingly organized and hostile populace. This is not a formula for success. Historical trends, in fact, point in the opposite direction.
If you look at the recent headlines things are not good in Iraq. In fact, let's focus on the period between August 1 and August 5:
Casualties continue unabated
Chopper shot down, hospital bombed
Sadr declares war on British troops
Two marines killed near Syrian border
Fresh hostages
US contractor killed
Saudi contractors suspend truck traffic to Iraq
Car bomb kills 5
Two more marines killed
Three more marines killed
Iraqi governor quits
Here is an analysis of the war by Robert Fisk, a British reporter in Iraq:
War a fraud
Our troops will face more of the same, but in escalated fashion, until the American people stop whistling past the graveyard. Right now, I think our troops need us more than we need them in Iraq.
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