unpatriotized position:

Ordinarily, there is no universal assumption that the aggressor's project must succeed.

unpatriotized position:

Ordinarily, the main negative issue is the harm to the people being attacked, not to the attacker's side.

unpatriotized position:

Ordinarily, we don't take it for granted that people who think something is unjust want it to succeed. This is, of course, because ordinarily the issue is the injustice to the victims of the aggression, not to the aggressor's troops. It would be insanity to say that the crime is bad because it's not succeeding (as this text does) if the crime were thought of as a crime to the people of the country that was attacked. But when America goes to war any issue of crime is the issue of crime to the US soldiers, not to the people of other countries that they are ruling and, if unsubmitting, openly trying their best to kill.

unpatriotized history:

Killing "insurgents" is increasing the death toll.

unpatriotized history:

The "Iraqi forces" are controlled by a foreign ruler; the "insurgents" are Iraqis who are not.

unpatriotized history:

The US has made progress at getting what the US wants for Iraq.

unpatriotized history:

The US has brought US tyranny to Iraq.

unpatriotized history:

Only after Iraq was conquered by a foreign power did some Iraqis fight back against that foreigner and the Iraqis who work for it.

unpatriotized history:

The US is driving out independent, Iraqi-controlled Iraqi forces and replacing them with US-controlled Iraqi forces.