Clueless in Iraq

Over at TPM, David Kurtz makes an important observation about the piece in this morning's New York Times saying the "insurgency" has become self-financing. Kurtz points out that the secret report on which the NY Times story is based seems to draw no distinctions between al Qaeda insurgents, Sunni rebels, or Shia militia. They're all seemingly lumped together and called "insurgents." As David concludes:

The overwhelming impression I'm left with from the piece is that more than three and half years after ostensibly seizing control of Iraq, the U.S. government is still largely ignorant of the armed groups arrayed against its efforts there.