I feel we have lost the war.

Original post date: April 15, 2006

People are right that we needed more security in Iraq at the beginning of the invasion. We need more troops in there now, but I fear it is too late. Support for the war is low and will never recover. The media biased against any good news coming out of Iraq. Because of the media, people have no idea that out of the 18 provinences in Iraq, 75% casulaties come from 4 of them (Al Anbar, Baghdad, Salah ad Din and Ninawa) which are basically the Sunni Triangle and the stronghold of US resistance by both former Baath and Al Zaquwi loyalists.
My solution is to put 25,000 more troops in each of the above four provinences and focus on training the Iraqi military in those areas. Like it or not we turned Iraq in the frontlines on the War on Terrorism. We need to win or Iraq will turn into a complete safehaven for Al Qaeda and other terrorist groups. Which is exactly what Al Qaeda wants, to drive us out and put us on the defensive. They know from our recent past conflicts and deployment of troops ( Vietnam, Beirut, Somalia, and not invading Iraqi during the first Gulf War) that American's achilles heal is it's population and how it reacts to casulaties. Once they hit the magical number of US casulaties, Americans will pull out of the war. They know ,with the war's approval rating down to 35%, that the time is near and all they need to do is keep picking at us with IED's, mortars and such killing one or two at a time. They aren't gaining any ground and the only resistance they have a cowardly hit and run tactics or targeting innocent civilians to cause fear in the Iraqi people and to get it reported on the news.
That is why America won WW2 and lost Vietnam. In WW2 we lost over 400,000 American servicemen and women and we still were united against Germany and Japan. In Vietnam our enemy saw the protests and political corruption and knew it was only a matter of time before American would pull out. The TET offensive was a major defeat against the North Vietnamese. They didn't gain any new ground, but the American press made it out like it was a major defeat for the US. To the North Vietnamese their best propaganda tool was our media.
So I don't just blame our population for not showing a united front against our enemies. I also blame our government for not doing the same and having bad policies that hasn't help the situation in Iraq.

Personally I am sad, not for Bush ( I can give a rats ass), but for our troops and the dwindling support for our mission over there.