[tobyhill]

I should be more grateful for our allies support but with some of the allies I'm having a hard time seeing their successes past their devastating failures.

[uksupport1]

The fact that whole districts of Baghdad and formerly controlled US towns in South-Central Iraq have been falling under Shiite militia control in recent days suggests that the US has not been any more successful in persuading Shiite people to turn away from militia allegiances than Britain.