“The bottom line is, at this moment we are losing the war,” says Andrew Bacevich, a former Army colonel who teaches international relations at Boston University. “That doesn’t mean it is lost, but we are losing, and as an observer it is difficult for me to see that either the civilian leadership or the military leadership has any plausible idea on how to turn this around.”
The taboo has been broken, largely because of statements by Seymour Hersh all over the news media in the last week. Now the L word can be discussed: the US is losing the war in Iraq.
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