Let me get this straight

So the Coalition can't pull out of Iraq until they train all the police. But then the Basra police get into a turf battle with the local militia, even though they share some personnel.

Two British SAS officers go undercover posing as insurgents, get captured and promptly delivered from the police to the militia. Then the Brits call in the calvary and stomp the whole jail, thus sparking riots throughout Basra, a "relatively safe place."

Meanwhile, the seemingly oblivious U.S. Military is claiming progress by using the same, faulty body count methodology that didn't work in Vietnam.

Can someone (besides Hitchens, who merely thinks we're not trying hard enough) explain just what exactly the f*ck is going on over there?