From today's Times: [1]

After months of widespread frustration with corruption, the economy and a lack of justice and security, doubts about President Hamid Karzai of Afghanistan, and by extension the American-led effort to rebuild that nation, have led to a crisis of confidence.

Four letters are the cause of this failure, a failure we will one day in the not too distant future come to rue: Iraq. So many predicted that Iraq would be a massive waste and distraction. Sadly, I told you so, just doesn't feel so good anymore.