Posted on 03/11/2007 10:56:39 AM PDT by srmorton
A front-page story in The Post last week suggested that the Bush administration has no backup plan in case the surge in Iraq doesn't work. I wonder if The Post and other newspapers have a backup plan in case it does.
Leading journalists have been reporting for some time that the war was hopeless, a fiasco that could not be salvaged by more troops and a new counterinsurgency strategy. The conventional wisdom in December held that sending more troops was politically impossible after the antiwar tenor of the midterm elections. It was practically impossible because the extra troops didn't exist. Even if the troops did exist, they could not make a difference
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
The Post turns "pro-war" ???
It sounds like the IED-planting, Commie 'RATS down at the DNC better get busy if they are going to successfully pull off a defeat of the U.S. in Iraq and the War On Terror. Commie bass turds.
That is great news.
If we plan to stay in Iraq forever in force, the surge is working. However, if we ever plan to leave Iraq and let the "Iraqi people" police their own country... then the surge is working the same way any side in a civil war would see success if the opposition suddenly went to ground to wait our an offensive.
It's a world turned upside down; the WashPISSED is actually running a column saying that the Surge is working.
Well said.
Excellent column, thanks for posting.
This means the Dems will have to double their efforts to ensure our defeat.
What was particularly unusual about this article was that the writing and thinking is quite excellent -- rather than the usual plagiarisms of Helen Thomas op-rants passing as "informed" and "valued" "Journalism."
People can tell the difference in quality -- that gives the article its own credibility. Hopefully this is a trend in modern journalism -- because the old journalism has no intelligent readers, as well as writers.
Ha! Fat chance of that happening.
Man, I wish the media would avoid pronouncing the surge either a success or a failure until it actually has a chance to work. The premature announcements just set us up for cries of 'failure' the first time there's some negative event. And... believe me... there will be negative events. This ain't no cakewalk.
The msm "backup plan" is to make sure NO news of the surge succeeding will make it to the American public.
As soon as the 'Surge' was announced, this was my exact analysis. I hope we are wrong, and the Iraqis are up to speed to police themselves by the time we pull out, but...
This is a column by paleo-con Robert Kagan ... not an article or editorial by the Post!
No.
The Iraqi's now have 350,000 of their own troops and counting. Part of the surge plan is to finnish training these Iraqi forces so that they may continue with the success of the surge.
Why do you ignore that?
The newspapers need to make it a trend -- of letting knowledgeable people in the community share their intelligence and insight -- instead of demanding that we worship their own media hacks as all-knowing gods.
Newspapers have to move in this direction of mining the great well of wisdom in the world now -- rather than insisting that everything they know, is all there is to know, or that all they want us to know, is everything there is to know.
Or as one backwater newspaper puts it, "All the news fit to print."
I pray I'm wrong too. Our troops are great. I believe in them. But I don't believe anything can be done with this hellhole.
I don't ignore that. The reason that has happened is because we are there. We have three distinctive cultures in what is called "Iraq." Two of them have been arguing for over a thousand years as to which Kalib is the rightful heir to the Prophet Mohammed. With or without our troops there, the argument will continue. As great as our troops are there is nothing they can do about this. I also don't think you can discover "Founding Fathers" inside a stupid and destructive, centuries-long situation like this. JMO, nothing more.
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