More glowing success in Iraq

Armando at dailyKos explains why the war in Iraq, while not orignally related to the "War on Terror," is now an intimate part of that battle, but not as we might have hoped:

[T]he Iraq Debacle is NOW about the War on Terror because of the tremendous harm caused to the United States' fight against terror: the recruitment bonanza; the spike in anti-American Arab sentiment; the fraying of our alliances; the degrading of our armed forces; and the development of Iraq as a training and proving ground for terrorists (no the insurgency in Iraq is not Al Qaida, but terrorism is a part of the resistance to the U.S. occupation).

Only everybody with any foresight foresaw this, but now even government reports are up to speed (see the link for an NYT article on same).
Sigh, always another sigh.