Losing hearts and minds, at home and in Iraq

The destruction of one of Iraq’s most sacred Shiite shrines won’t make the war any more popular there, and a new Gallup Poll shows that the war isn’t exactly winning a lot of converts here, either. Fifty-five percent of Americans now say it was a “mistake” to go to war in Iraq — just shy of the record high hit in the wake of Hurricane Katrina — and a record-low 31 percent say that America is winning the war. Fifty-five percent say that no one is winning, and 10 percent say the insurgents are.