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From yesterday's WaPo:
"Even so, some insiders worry that the new push will still prove to be too little, too late. "We have lost the fight for public and political support, so no matter how successful we are militarily, we are being led to failure," said one U.S. intelligence expert involved in Iraqi operations." (Emphasis Added)
Me thinks this un-named intelligence expert is unintelligent, uninformed or on the wrong side.
This quote is pathetic because it does not address which country the "we" has "lost the fight" in.
If the anonymouse intelligence expert is referring to Iraq, I think this expert totally unaware of the things that are going on in little villages all accross Anbar.
In those little places that cover the entire west bank of the Euphrates river valley it looks like public support is something "we" have won.
But maybe the intelligence expert should get out a little more to visit places like this.
Or see real infantry units with networks of informants that ID Jaish Al Mahdi leaders.
So much for public support being lost in Iraq.
Now, if he was referring to the U.S. then he is just being unintelligent.
Any intelligence expert should know that Jaish Al Mahdi and Al Qaida's strategy is based on GRPs or Gross Ratings Points (a unit of measurement of audience size). If an intelligence expert does not know what GRPs are at this stage in the game he is a moron.
And since this guy may very well be a moron it is not surprising that he would unwittingly add to those GRPs with his little quote for Ricks.
Unless he is very aware of GRPs at which point he knows better than to help score GRPs for Al Qaida and Jaish Al Mahdi and doesn't care because he may want them to win.
If this guy is on the U.S. payroll, he should be honest and start drawing a check from the other side because he sure doesn't seem to be doing much for the side that is paying him.
If he is in the private sector, why the anonymity?
Unless he isn't much of an expert--as laid out above--but a convenient quotemeister.
Now for the politics, one does not have to be Michael Barone to see that a lot of U.S. politicians have inserted a lot of politics into the war for their own partisan advantage.
Which may go a long way to explaining his choice of the word, "lost."
As for the Iraqi politicians, the only people who find them more reckless than Americans are Iraqis. If the Iraqis actually liked their politicians, that would be a cause of concern.
Freedom isn't free...and neither is reporting from Iraq.
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