How to spot a failure

But I thought June 30th would change everything!

"The hope was that the gloomy prospect would change when a new interim government took over from the Governing Council. The logic was that it would be perceived by the Iraqis as a government of their own, with its own mind, and not a US puppet. That has not happened. The new government is seen by Iraqi political experts as pro-American and manipulated by exiles who owe their position to US patronage."