So much for Rumsfeld & Co's new way of warfare.

Here's what Rick Atkinson reported from the holy city of Najaf in today's Washington Post: "In a conference over the hood of a Humvee during the airstrikes, a Special Forces commander today told a senior Army officer, "Sir, we don't want a war of attrition, but we are in one."

"We are," the officer agreed. "It's a siege."