First - somebody needs to be a little more careful about keepin' that guy away from the coffee. Jesus - it's like grandma's Chihuahua got into the Aderall.
And I'd dearly love it if the Zombie Lie of "the surge worked" could be laid to rest.
Three things about "the surge worked" that even I know:
- The sheiks started to get pretty reasonable about not fighting us when we started to pay them to stop fighting us, because...
- The sheiks realized we were telling them we'd fuck off and leave 'em alone if they cooled it long enough to let us pretend we'd won the thing
- The propaganda of "The Surge Worked" is what worked.
This guy is doing the classic Deflecting Denialism thing - "our policy didn't fail; we failed to carry through on the policy..."
And it ends up being: "Iraqis are still fighting back and killing Americans, so obviously, we haven't killed enough Iraqis - let's go kill some more Iraqis".
And so, secondly - how many times do we need to learn the same lesson? You don't kill your way to a solution for political problems.
People have been trying this same shit forever. It's partly the lesson of The Greater Fool - "I will prevail where others have failed" - and that's all well and good, Skeezix, but ya gotta remember that better people than you have been trying to conquer the world for a solid 40,000 years at last count, and guess what - the world remains undefeated.
So knock that shit off.
