Comments on: The War for the Surge http://cominganarchy.com/2008/03/01/the-war-for-the-surge/ Speak Victorian, Think Pagan Mon, 01 Dec 2008 20:58:22 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.2 By: Every 9.74 Days, Iraqi Civilians Experience September 11th | Prose Before Hos http://cominganarchy.com/2008/03/01/the-war-for-the-surge/#comment-382600 Every 9.74 Days, Iraqi Civilians Experience September 11th | Prose Before Hos Tue, 04 Mar 2008 14:57:23 +0000 http://cominganarchy.com/2008/03/01/the-war-for-the-surge/#comment-382600 [...] Veterans Backlogged, Progress: In the Slums of Fallujah, It’s The Iraq Top Torture Tune Rundown!, The War for the Surge, Afghan Poppy Production - Another Boom Year, Secrets and Lies, An inconvenient AFG truth, Moral [...] [...] Veterans Backlogged, Progress: In the Slums of Fallujah, It’s The Iraq Top Torture Tune Rundown!, The War for the Surge, Afghan Poppy Production – Another Boom Year, Secrets and Lies, An inconvenient AFG truth, Moral [...]

]]> By: Adrian http://cominganarchy.com/2008/03/01/the-war-for-the-surge/#comment-382555 Adrian Sun, 02 Mar 2008 04:09:25 +0000 http://cominganarchy.com/2008/03/01/the-war-for-the-surge/#comment-382555 Depends what you think the actual goal of the surge was. Was it the stated goal of lowering violence to get pressure off the politicians in Baghdad so they could make concessions and cut deals? Or was it a last ditch gamble to maintain political support in the U.S.? The latter goal succeeded - even though the majority of Americans still want to leave Iraq, its created the perception amongst uninformed media types that we have a chance of winning. If the goal was actual political goals in Baghdad then its an obvious failure. I wrote a couple posts on the surge - the first looking at the surge as if it targets the domestic political opinion, the second looking at the cost/benefits. http://a517dogg.blogspot.com/2007/08/thoughts-on-surge.html http://a517dogg.blogspot.com/2007/12/looking-at-surge.html Depends what you think the actual goal of the surge was. Was it the stated goal of lowering violence to get pressure off the politicians in Baghdad so they could make concessions and cut deals? Or was it a last ditch gamble to maintain political support in the U.S.? The latter goal succeeded – even though the majority of Americans still want to leave Iraq, its created the perception amongst uninformed media types that we have a chance of winning. If the goal was actual political goals in Baghdad then its an obvious failure.

I wrote a couple posts on the surge – the first looking at the surge as if it targets the domestic political opinion, the second looking at the cost/benefits.

http://a517dogg.blogspot.com/2007/08/thoughts-on-surge.html

http://a517dogg.blogspot.com/2007/12/looking-at-surge.html

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