UK Secretary of Defence, John Reid, talks around the problem of Rumsfeld's Paradox:
Troops, he will say, are now operating on an "uneven playing field of scrutiny", where the forces' actions are analysed down to the "level of the single private soldier", while the enemy "refuses any scrutiny at all and endeavours to exploit our highly prized free media against us".
Rumsfeld's Paradox is as follows: When one is trying to prevent all bad news from Iraq coming out, one cannot put on display the inhumanity of one's opponents without making it appear like the mission isn't being completed. Thus, it seems like all bad acts are coming from American soldiers. Its time for Bush to admit the mission is a mess. If he really wants to stay the course, his best course of action is to admit that things are bad and lay out the inhumanity of those who attack our soldiers and Iraqis. Don't bet on it.