From Center for American Progress (snippet):

Today's Column In Pursuit of a Better Way by John Podesta, Richard C. Leone and Robert Kuttner - October 27, 2003 Every day we are incurring the costs – both human and financial – of a policy built on deception and myth, both about the imminence of the threat in Iraq and the cost and scope of rebuilding. Reconstruction is all the more arduous because the U.S. is going it alone. American forces are spread dangerously thin, both in Iraq and elsewhere. The singular focus on Iraq has damaged other critical U.S. foreign policy goals. It has diverted attention from more serious threats, including proliferation of nuclear and other weapons of mass destruction, and has led the administration to downplay very real dangers in Korea, Iran, and inside Saudi Arabia. Afghanistan is still dangerously unstable. Osama bin Laden is still at large. The road to Jerusalem was said to lead through Baghdad, but the failure to attend to Mideast policy has left the Israelis and the Palestinians further apart than ever. The region is enflamed and the Administration has too little leverage to reduce violence and provocation, much less to build a durable peace. The plain contempt expressed for allies has made it harder for the U.S. to count on their support for other important diplomatic goals, ranging from a new trade round, to a common strategy against nuclear proliferation, to shared contributions for Iraq's reconstruction. Meanwhile, national security at home has gotten short shrift. Instead of using the Department of Homeland Security to help first-responders in state and local governments and to coordinate far-flung federal efforts, the new Department has become one more agency in a fragmented bureaucracy. The administration often seems to be trying to win the war against terrorism at home by short-circuiting civil liberties.

Wait, let me make sure I'm understanding this... Things aren't going well?