And people think we are winning in Iraq.

We are going broke, which is what "the enemy" wanted.

Draw us into a land war in the Middle East. Drain our treasury, bankrupt us.

It is clear, it is a basic truth.

We are fighting an "enemy" who cannot stand up to us militarily. Fact

We are fighting an "enemy" who cannot stand up to us diplomatically. Fact.

How can he damage us? Indirectly.

He attacks us dramatically and we respond dramatically.

the enemy's dream was we would get sucked into a land war in Afghanistan and like the Russians, would be drained militarily and economically. He never even dreamed we would be so stupid as to invade Iraq.

Yet we did.

now nearly a trillion dollars later we are still in Iraq.

to pay for this we lived on credit.

Our credit system is falling.

We are losing.

yet keep thinking the surge is working.