The Belmont Club has a very important essay on the insurgents' and terrorists' best weapon against our military: Western media and al-Jazeera. This is required reading.
The bottom line is that our losses in Iraq, although grievous, are nothing compared to what we have lost in other wars. Nor are we in any danger of losing any fight we're in; militarily, if one could divorce the projection of our force from the inextricable political considerations, we could flatten a grease trap like Fallujah with one or two daisy-cutters. But if we have to fight this war by the standards of a pathologically sensationalist media that lack all sense of proportion, we will be in trouble, indeed.
Wretchard is such a kick-ass writer. Thanks for doing your public service, sir, whoever you are.