Quote for the Day "Many Iraqis, beleaguered at every turn, said they saw the bomb as an attempt to aggravate sectarian strife and as one more piece of evidence that the Americans could not protect them from extremists. Many of those who live near the site of the destruction said they had concluded that the Americans must be helping the suicide bombers."

—Alissa Rubin in the Times, writing about yesterday's mosque-bombing in Iraq

What does it say when citizens of the country we were supposedly/allegedly/ostensibly trying to save now believe that we are the ones trying to destroy it?

I don't know at what point we can truly conclude that we have lost Iraq, but surely one indicator would be when ordinary Iraqis believe that Americans are helping suicide bombers blow up mosques.  ¶ 2:06 PM