Insurgents Winning?

Via Juan Cole comes this Reuters report that Abu Ghriab prison has become sort of a university for terrorists, but the last conclusions really caught my eye.

The insurgency is increasingly optimistic about victory. Such self-confidence was not there when the war was conceived as an open-ended jihad against an occupier they believed was determined to stay. Optimism stems from a conviction the legitimacy of jihad is now beyond doubt, institutions established under the occupation are fragile and irreparably illegitimate, and the war of attrition against U.S. forces is succeeding. '

That can’t be good.