Hey, it's not any better, but at least it's not any WORSE

This is what passes for optimism in Iraq now; Gen. Myers is forced to say that the insurgency there is "about where it was a year ago." I'm sure he would have liked to say we were in better shape, but with the series of attacks in the past week, including today's slaying of a member of Parliament, that wouldn't have passed the smell test.

Gen. Myers is basically saying that the last full year in Iraq, fully half the time spent there, has yielded no discernible results in terms of stopping the insurgency, training Iraqi troops, or bringing US soldiers any closer to home.

Does this bother anybody else?