Retreat and Defeat is an accurate comparison to today's reaction to the "perception" that things are not going well in Iraq and the feeling at one point during the Revolutionary war that things were not going well. I am sure you have heard the phrase "These are the times that try men's souls" but I was not aware it stemmed from a dark time during the American Revolution when things were going less than swimmingly.

Read the above linked story for a unique and revealing comparison and contrasting of the then and now.