The surge is working (what were the original goals?)

Okay, I’m really freaking tired of the moving targets in all aspects of the “Global War on TerrorTM”. The latest is the “surge” (don’t call it escalation). They fired General Shinseki for saying Iraq required “several hundred thousand” troops; four years later, they add troops and surprise! Fatalities fall.

Except, it’s not sustainable. And, it forgets the original point. The point of the surge was to give breathing room to an embryonic government to get its act together and get past sectarian division. Hello? Hello? Is this thing on? Zero progress and an absurdly broken “government” that is completely irrelevant outside the Green Zone.

So the Right still gets to ask rhetorically, “Would you prefer that Saddam Hussein was still in power?” Hell yes! Like Tito in Yugoslavia, sometimes an iron fist is required to hold back nasty ethnic tendencies. Somebody should attack this thinking about now, and note that Prez MonkeyBoy wants to spread democracy, not strong man rule. Except he gives $10,000,000,000 to support strong man Pervez Musharraf. The hypocrisy is breathtaking.