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Politics : Ask Michael Burke
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To: Thomas M. who wrote (118418)5/7/2009 9:40:57 AM
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Thomas,

I obviously disagree.

The "surge" was about an entirely different strategy for dealing with the Iraqis that were aligning themselves with foreign fighters. The idea was to convince them to switch sides using a broad range of strategies.

In addition, while there may or may not have been a net increase in coalition troops (I didn't count), there was an increase in US troops to the problem areas where they were needed.

Personally, I think not acknowledging the success of the changed strategy because of politics (which is what you are doing) would be a horrible lesson for America to learn. The world may need this playbook elsewhere in the world again someday even if the US is not directly involved.

At the beginning of the surge I posted a 60 minute interview on the Charlie Rose with one of the foremost experts on the new strategy (one of the guys that wrote the playbook, but his name escapes me). He more or less laid out exactly what new things we were going to do, the risks, the upsides, the history of putting together the strategy, lessons learned elsewhere in the world in similar situations etc... If I ever stumble across it again, I'll post it.

You have to stop reading those left wing media sources. ;-)

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