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NRO contributor Smith "hard-pressed" to find U.S. service members who would say "it's not going well" in Iraq

October 29, 2007 6:00 pm ET

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SUMMARY: In a post on the NRO military blog The Tank, W. Thomas Smith Jr. asserted that he had been to Iraq, spent "[d]ays -- sometimes weeks -- at a time" with units in action, and would be "hard-pressed to find one American Marine or soldier (or a Brit) who would say to me 'it's not going well.' " However, there are several examples of active-duty or retired service members expressing discontent with progress in Iraq through media outlets.

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