On Mar 26, 2:41 pm, Ernst Blofeld <blofel...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> On Mar 26, 1:25 pm, <ah...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>
> > The goal of the surge was to facilitate political progress in Iraq
> > by giving their government some breathing room. The 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.
Or maybe you could look at it that we simply put 80,000 Sunni
militants on our payroll,
and that is why they stopped shooting at us.
Not to mention the fact that Sadr's army declared a cease fire, a
cease fire that is now ending.
>
> > however no political progress has been
> > made. None. Hence 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.
LOL!
Fighting and killing all over Iraq is a "very encouraging sign".
No wonder usenet Republicans think the surge is working. They've moved
the goal posts clear off the playing field.
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