Hey, dis aint workin so good

Doo doo doo.... Time to hold a contest in which the best pro-American slogan gets lots of al-Arabiya airtime and the winning entry receives a free blender, a set of margarita glasses, and a bucket of clean water. Make it a gameshow. Instead of a police force and army, recruit a mass of Iraqi Wink Martindales to conduct local gameshows.

Senior U.S. officials have begun to question a key presumption of American strategy in Iraq: that establishing democracy there can erode and ultimately eradicate the insurgency gripping the country.

The expectation that political progress would bring stability has been fundamental to the Bush administration's approach to rebuilding Iraq, as well as a central theme of White House rhetoric to convince the American public that its policy in Iraq remains on course.

But within the last two months, U.S. analysts with access to classified intelligence have started to challenge this precept, noting a "significant and disturbing disconnect" between apparent advances on the political front and efforts to reduce insurgent attacks.