[self_evident]

Leave it alone, they're doing great?

Although we have no basis for knowing if it is working. The real story in Iraq is not generally covered.

The Najaf situation made the US strategy perfectly clear. We are playing rope-a-dope until a sufficient Iraqi force is trained and equipped to do the heavy lifting. In the meantime.. minimize casulties and to do as much good as possible.

We have become a remarably impatient nation.

[nosofar]

We have become a remarably impatient nation.

Yup, but the administration must take this into account in their policy making. They can't just wish it were otherwise. It does seem like Bush and his advisors were trying to wage this war based on the election cycle.