out of the mouths of Marines...

...well, this guy's report is classified and he doesn't appear to have leaked it, so hopefully his career isn't fucked:

'Pessimistic' report on Iraq leaves little hope in Anbar

WASHINGTON - The chief of intelligence for the Marine Corps in Iraq recently filed an unusual secret report concluding that the prospects for securing that country's western Anbar province are dim and that there is almost nothing the U.S. military can do to improve the political and social situation there, said several military officers and intelligence officials familiar with its contents.

The officials described Col. Pete Devlin's classified assessment of the dire state of Anbar as the first time a senior U.S. military officer has filed so negative a report from Iraq.

One Army officer summarized it as arguing that in Anbar province, "We haven't been defeated militarily, but we have been defeated politically — and that's where wars are won and lost."

What differs here from Vietnam is that we were defeated militarily in that war. Nixon had to escalate things to Operation Linebacker to bring the North Vietnamese to the table, and that totally lost him the political side. I don't know if it's possible for any american government to "win" the political side of this conflict at this point, though.

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