BEYOND REPAIR?....

"BEYOND REPAIR?....Col. Pete Devlin, a man who has "the reputation of being one of the Marine Corps' best intelligence officers," has concluded in a secret assessment that the situation in Iraq's Anbar province is hopelessly lost:

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."

Political Animal

Not that I have been saying that for about two years now, but what do I know.