Republicans bail on Bush over Iraq surge

This posting refers to this article: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB118393582794360370.html?mod=googlenews_wsj


Republicans are bailing left and right on the White House’s much touted surge strategy, because the strategy, just like the “send more troops” mantra of Vietnam is a failure. Instead of focusing on hunting terrorists (our original mission), these troops are caught in the middle of a Sunni/Shia bloodbath.

By the way, with the recent calls by senior Iraqi leaders for the Iraqi population to “defend themselves,” when is our government going to start calling this a civil war?

The surge may also be a failure because troops in a lot of smaller outposts scattered throughout the cities are forced to spend their time defending their outposts, instead of patrolling the streets (I got that from a Stars and Stripes story).

Have we not learned anything from Vietnam?

This only shows how unspeakably crass they are: war is fine, unless it interferes with THEIR careers.

:hi::patriot:

BTW - great blog!:thumbsup: