With controversy swirling around the veracity of The New Republic's "Baghdad Diarist" accounts, it's hard to know very much for certain. But this can be said:

If the accounts of embedded journalist/bloggers like Michael Yon, Michael Totten, and Bill Roggio are to be believed and taken as representative, Coalition forces are taking on difficult, dangerous, and stressful tasks. While they screw up, sometimes badly, the moral core of the great majority of soldiers is holding...