text: how humiliating has the defeat of the (superpower) been in iraq? military commanders in the field in iraq admit in private reports to the pentagon the war "is lost" and that the u.s. military is unable to stem the mounting violence killing 1,000 iraqi civilians a month.  even worse, they report the massacre of iraqi civilians at haditha is "just the tip of the iceberg" with overstressed, out-of-control americans soldiers pushed beyond the breaking point both physically and mentally.  http://www.capitolhillblue.com/artman/publish/printer_8790.shtml as an american, i can say that the defeat of the "greatest military in the world" by a few insurgents has been embarrassing.