Quote of the Day

"We helped make this mess. Instead of relentlessly destroying terrorists and insurgents, we tried to wage war gently to please the media. We always let the bad guys off the ropes - and apologized when they showed the press their rope burns."

Ralph Peters on why we're losing in Iraq. Notice how the onus of failure is put on the media rather than where it truely belongs. And to think that this stuff actually gets published...