The Surge

Here's the concluding paragraph of a great post at BooMan.

It is a lie to say that the “surge” worked. It is nearly traitorous to use the tactics that were used to measure the shortest term of “goals” when it comes to a temporary decrease in violence that is based on arming both sides of a civil war – including those who were attacking US troops a few short months earlier.

Now, go read the whole bunch of paragraphs that are the rest of the story. Oh, & is Paul Harvey still alive?

The Surge Is Working, Really, Really, It's Working

Not.

A carefully constructed compromise on a draft law governing Iraq’s rich oil fields, agreed to in February after months of arduous talks among Iraqi political groups, appears to have collapsed. The apparent breakdown comes just as Congress and the White House are struggling to find evidence that there is progress toward reconciliation and a functioning government here.