"Best of all is when your troops are held in such awe that everyone comes to surrender. This is preferrable to winning by trickery, violence and slaughter."

- Sun Tzu, Art of War, Chp. 3 "Planning the Attack".

Reminds me of Cheney's, "Iraqis will welcome American troops as liberators" comment.

I'm betting that, in the deepest part of its being - the one that doesn't lie - this Chicken Hawk Administration is wondering, "Where the fuck did we go wrong?"

The fact that they haven't recognized that things have actually gone wrong is bad enough.

That, even if they did, they probably don't have a clue on how to fix the mess they made is worse.