No Replacement For Displacement

I saw the dumbest statement so far of the war

Peter Jennings was interviewing a former commander of Nato(I forget his name), and he said "I think we've lost the initiative." In a campaign involving 300,000 troops, and thousands of combat aircraft, one hard landing by a chopper means that we've lost the initiative. When I see Iraqi soldiers marching on Kuwait, then we've lost initiative. An isolated missile strike or a downed helicopter doesn't qualify.