Yeah, we wouldn't want anyone to have second thoughts about wildly successful surge, would we?
Bad days happen.
Good days also happen.
The goal is not to have the media only cover Iraq on the bad days and cover Brittney's hair on the good days.
Are you being sarcastic? In that case gee, thanks for validating the use of Islamic terrorism as a means of political influence.
If this were WWII you'd undoubtedly be watching Nazi film footage of US soliders being machine-gunned in their landing crafts on Omaha beach and would likely be making sarcastic remarks about how "wildly successful" the Normandy landings were.
I don't fault people such as yourself as much as the media for maximizing coverage of terrorist actions while minimizing Coaliton achievements. Some of us realize this. Some of us don't.