Do you know why the Surge is overrated?

Question

This was removed by the Babysitters here on Monday, without even notifying me or specifying the reason why. There is absolutely NOTHING wrong with it, so I am repeating it, and I'll thank the right-wing clods here to GO AWAY if they're too babyish to handle a real discussion of issues.

Here goes:

If you want a surge to "succeed" it helps to schedule it for when the process of sectarian cleansing is almost complete. Two million Iraqis left the country, and many nieghborhoods are now all-Shiite or all-Sunni. Do you REALLY think if 25 million Iraqis wanted to have it out, that a mere 20,000 more US soldiers could hold them off?

Spinmeisters not only overemphasize the surge, but they play down what REALLY made violence die down in Iraq: The Sunni Awakening (turning against Al Qaeda), the Madhi Army choosing to lay down their arms (BEFORE the surge was announced), and Prime Minister Maliki's successful Basra operation.

As a wise man once said, "Those who hate and fight must stop themselves... otherwise it is not stopped."

Answer 1

If you say so Paris....Too bad you never took the time to read Al Qaeda in it's own words instead of relying on your opinion.

Answer 2

Yes.

"The secret to the supposed success of the surge is plain to see. If you kill over a million people, wound and maim perhaps three times that many, turn five million more into exiles or refugees in their own land, round up tens of thousands of the young men who have survived this slaughter and imprison them without charges in detention camps, it is possible to achieve a temporary suppression of popular resistance.

The “personal traits” of George W. Bush that equipped him to preside over such a venture are gross ignorance, sadism, an unflinching commitment to the interests of the financial aristocracy into which he was born, and an absolute contempt for the suffering of working people. He is, in short, a mental cipher and a moral cripple.

No doubt from Berlin in 1939 the n**i “surge” into Poland also seemed a great success, achieved by similar methods, and there were many who attributed this to the “personal traits,” including the stubbornness and self-confidence, of Germany’s Fuhrer.

For the millions upon millions of people in the US and around the world who have opposed the US intervention in Iraq from the outset, the issue was not whether mass killing and the systematic destruction of a society would “work,” but rather opposition to a criminal war of aggression.