Think back to over a year ago when Bush said he was going to send more forces to Iraq. The rational was that more troops would enable the American and Iraqi armies to stabilize the security situation, which would give the Iraqis a chance to build up their army and for their politicians to do what they need to do in order to create a government of national unity, then we could reduce the size of our forces in Iraq.
The first happened, sort of. An argument can be made that part of the security improvements come from the conclusion of sectarian cleansing and the placing of tens of thousands of former insurgents on the Army payroll.
The second did not happen, there has been no reconciliation.
The third is not going to happen. We are going to have as many troops on the ground in Iraq into 2009 as were on the ground before the Surge commenced.
So tell me again, how is the Surge a "success"? In any job, other than being a batter in a baseball game, accomplishing 33% of the task is called "failure."
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