Now the top generals are agreeing with what many of us lowly peons have been saying very publicly for quite a while: U.S. Generals See Growing Threat of Civil War in Iraq.
Ah, but never fear! Rummy’s on the job!

… Rumsfeld, in often tense exchanges with senators, warned against pulling U.S. troops out of Iraq prematurely.
He said that would be seen as a victory by extremists who want to control a region extending beyond the Middle East.
“If we left Iraq prematurely as the terrorists demand, the enemy would tell us to leave Afghanistan and then withdraw from the Middle East. And if we left the Middle East, they’d order us and all those who don’t share their militant ideology to leave what they call the occupied Muslim lands from Spain to the Philippines,” he said.
“And then we would face not only the evil ideology of these extremists, but an enemy that will have grown accustomed to succeeding in telling free people everywhere what to do.”

So now that the Administration has gotten us into this death spiral, the message remains the same: Stay the course, the ship will right itself.
I doubt it. I particularly doubt it while this super-macho Administration remains in charge.