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Why aren’t these soldiers dug in?

The first thing any soldier should do in an area subject to shell or rocket fire is to dig a trench, right? Even if you’re topside, you can always jump in.

By 53% to 15%, people believe British forces are failing to make Basra safe. There is even more scepticism about the success of the American troop surge in Baghdad: by 61% to 7% people think it is failing. Reports that US officials believe Britain has been defeated in Basra drew an angry response. By 66% to 11% respondents said Iraq’s problems were mainly due to American incompetence.

A biased, leftwing anti-American press misleads the British public, and so Harry Reid is taken as gospel.

"Under siege-Are the British facing defeat, as some US officials claim?"

Let's see.

US prepares to plug hole left by British troops
telegraph ^ | 11/08/2007

Excerpt:

Ken Pollack, a foreign affairs expert at the Washington-based Brookings Institution, who returned last month from an eight-day visit to Iraq, dismissed last week the British presence in southern Iraq as "meaningless". He said: "I am assuming the British will no longer be [in southern Iraq]. They are not there now. We have a battle group holed up in Basra airport. I do not see what good that does except for flying people in and out. It's the wild, wild west. Basra is out of control."

Yep...looks that way. ...matter of fact, I've only heard about losses and miseries from Basra as long as they've been there.