Consider:
A new, top-secret CIA report from Iraq warns that growing numbers of Iraqis are concluding the U.S.-led coalition can be defeated and are supporting the insurgents. ...The article also notes that
At the same time, the CIA assessment warns that none of the postwar Iraqi political institutions and leaders have shown an ability to govern the country or even preside over drafting a constitution or holding an election. ...
The report also added to concerns about the governing council. The group, which is dominated by former Iraqi exiles with little popular support, has failed to convince ordinary Iraqis that the occupation is temporary and will lead to a unified, sovereign Iraq, the report said.
[t]he report landed on the desks of senior U.S. officials on Monday. Disclosures on the report's findings suggested senior policymakers want to make sure the assessment reaches Bush.In other words, we're faced with a worsening security situation, increasing opposition, and our appointed "provisional authority" is incompetent and has no popular support - and the only way to make sure Bush even hears about it is to make it public knowledge that then can't be denied!
But fear not, we have a "new strategy:"
Accelerating a restoration of Iraqi self-rule, speeding security-force recruiting, and intensifying a U.S. counterinsurgency campaign form the crux of a new U.S. strategy to crush the insurgents, consolidate the support of ordinary Iraqis for democracy-building efforts, and reduce the U.S. military presence.Putting that more succinctly, our "new" plan is to continuing doing exactly the same things we've been doing, things that have been such spectacular failures, just do them harder. The brilliance and grandeur of such a shift leave one gasping.
Or at least something beginning with "g." Gagging, giggling, guffawing, something.
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