On Mar 26, 1:25=A0pm, <ah...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> The goal of the surge was to facilitate political progress in Iraq
> by giving their government some breathing room. =A0The breathing room
> was created, that did work (probably more from the money paid to
> former Sunni insurgents to induce them to stop shooting Americans,
> than from the extra Americans),
Uh, no. A confluence of events enabled that, including al Qaeda's
alienation of the Sunnis and more American troops, which provided the
necessary security for the Sunnis to effect the split.
> however no political progress has been
> made. =A0None. =A0Hence to claim that the surge is a complete success is
> blind to a large degree.
No. I notice today that the Iraqi government is going after the ****ite
militias in Basra, which is a very encouraging sign and which would
have been well-neigh inconceivable a year ago.
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