>>shouldn't have the resources he thinks he needs to be successful
That's the whole point. They don't want you to be successful. They think the country voted for surrender. They do not get it.
Meanwhile, a spokesman for the Insurgency denied Gates' allegation saying, "We are deeply moved by the respect you are showing your troops by cutting off their reinforcements when they are in the process of chasing our sorry camelbumpers out of Baghdad and are not emboldened in any such way, by Allah.