[RJCogburn]

Is this what a 'quagmire' looks like at its start?

[jwalsh07]

No, a quagmire looks like the second week of the assault on Baghdad where young American men kicked the sh%t out of every Iraqui who crossed their path.

[kabar]

At the risk of sounding callous, losing one man a day is not a quagmire. If we cannot stomach losing 365 men a year to pursue a strategic goal of the US, we are in real trouble. We must stay and achieve our goal realizing we are there for the long haul. It has only been weeks since the end of organized combat. This is not the time for handwringing.

[Destro]

I don't understand the shock--did we expect the Arab's (especially the minority Sunnis who had the most to lose-Saddam has nothing to do with this.) to embrace us after the regime fell? I am not shocked at all, especially with the fact that we sent too few troops to occupy Iraq once the war ended (enough to fight the war but not enough win the peace).

This is starting to look like our version of Chechnya.