I know it is a little hard to put the CON TEXT in context, let alone my own writing. The surge has worked.
No quotations on that, but my summary was that it would be maybe nuanced. I apparently write so nuanced that I find it hard to search my point that a troop surge would be political. The point I may have missed but had in mind, is that while I called it an escalation, it now is a surge. Petraeus hopes to be back down to pre-surge numbers by summer. The irony is that the solution in Iraq must be political while the surge over here was just political as well. Well maybe that sorts it out, or maybe I wanted to have my cake and eat it too, but the timing is all to drag things out for political gain, or minimizing political loss, and it is impossible to detach the politics.
MoveOn.org draws the line, the troops should not be in the crossfire and the General should not just tow the line.
[1:35 PM If he is really presenting "his" testimony, it does not mean he is not still straddling a very careful line. 1:55 PM a few bold/links added]
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