> "Americans remain virtually alone in still thinking of our involvement
> in Iraq as a war.
>
> To the Iraqi people it long since became a military occupation.
>
> Wars are won or lost, but there is no way an occupation can be either
> won or lost. It can only be ended."
>
> BEN KREMENAK
> Silver Spring, Maryland
>
> [The writer is a senior fellow at the Center for International and
> Security Studies in the School of Public Policy at the University of
> Maryland.]
>
> http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/03/AR200...