The mainstream news media are full of accounts of how bad morale is in Iraq. The troops, accorting to conventional wisdom, are disgruntled. Michael Fumento went to Iraq and found that someone forgot to tell that to the troops.
I observed that troop morale in even the most hostile areas was better than I would have believed. ... If the troops had antiwar feelings they didn’t hold them back on my account. Yet I heard none. I also carefully read the ubiquitous graffiti in the portable toilets and only once found a negative scrawling — a Bush bash. But three other scrawlings ambushed that first one.
How is the war itself going?
[T]he war is ours to lose, but I don’t think we will lose it. In a true guerrilla conflict, time favors the insurgency. But progressively this war has shifted to one waging non-Iraqi terrorists against primarily Iraqi civilians, secondarily Iraqi military and police, and last against Americans.
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