Surge Talk

Robert Dreyfuss' recent article, "Traveling the Planet Neocon Road to Baghdad (Again)," outlines the ridiculousness of the debate around increasing the number of troops in Iraq in an attempt to do something, anything, about what is increasingly being seen as a U.S. failure. His conclusion is historically on point and will likely be repeated in this current occupation: "It will be the Iraqis who end the war. It will be the Iraqis who eventually kill enough Americans to break the U.S. political will, and it will be the Iraqis who sweep away the ruins of the Maliki government to replace it with an anti-American, anti-U.S.- occupation government in Iraq. That is basically how the war in Vietnam ended, and it wasn't pretty."