It seems that the only one thinking about the surge is John McCain. "It's working. It's working. It's working," he repeats constantly and mechanically like an automoton. If it's working when are our troops coming home? Or, whether it's working or not working, we must stay in Iraq for "100 years"?
If working means bringing reconciliation among the factions, even according to General Petraeus it's NOT working:
Gen. David Petraeus said yesterday that “Iraqi leaders have failed to take advantage of a reduction in violence to make adequate progress toward resolving their political difference.” Petraeus said “no one” in the U.S. and Iraqi governments feels Iraq’s leaders are making “sufficient progress.”
How do Republicans answer when we ask When are the troops coming home after their "victory"? It seems that if there is violence we must stay there to stop the violence, and if the violence stops, we must stay there to make sure the violence does not begin again. Where's the end?
Well, although the media does not bother to report it, the violence has begun again. What do we do now? Another surge? 4000 Americans dead is not enough? Meanwhile we are losing everything we gained in Afghanistan and Osama bin Laden is free as a bird.
The surge is over. Why don't we declare "victory" and go home? Let's put our armed forces to use where they will do some good - in Afghanistan.
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