"We Must Deserve Victory"

I almost thought this was a spoof, but apparently it's authentic. The word count:

Terrorists/terrorism: 10
Insurgents: 1
Sunnis/Shiites: 1 each (in reference to Lebanon, not Iraq)

The desperation grows....

A tragicomic sidebar: Liz Cheney implores us to "read their blogs" -- "they" being the troops. So I dutifully clicked the link she provides to one such blog. The most recent post there is by a former Special Operations Master Sergeant:

They almost had me for a minute, you know the pomp, the ceremony, the best and brightest gathered together to make our world a better place. But then I snapped out of it and remembered that it was only our semi-coherent President, shaking the hand of a San Fran liberal who blinked somewhere around 82 million times, sitting next to a man who wished he was hunting and lying to the hundreds of whores arrayed before them. We have the greatest aggregation of human talent ever in one nation state, and this is our leadership?

When it goes bad, it really goes bad.