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Why don't pople understand about the surge?

The surge was a 2 part plan. One was military and the other was political. The military seems to have been successful, while the political (which was more important) was an utter failure. Did the surge work?

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  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago
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    Not failure... at least not yet.

  • whimsy
    Lv 5
    1 decade ago

    Further, the Surge was only a reaction to the fact that our Invasion strategy failed and we did NOT have enough troops on the ground for a successful occupation.

    The Surge is similar to the Bail-out proposal, in that both are stop-gap measures, and both cannot achieve the ultimate goals unless other variables we cannot control fall into place.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    The success of the surge has already been shown to be the result of a mass migration of militants out of the surge area just before the surge occurred, so the entire premise is faulty.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    Really? And how is it that the political failed? Seems to me like you are DEAD WRONG there. Sons of Iraq now incorporated and being paid by Iraqis to begin with.....was there something else you forgot to say? Surged worked. Unfortunate that you want to pretend otherwise. It's truly people like you who demoralize the entire mission in the first place.

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  • 1 decade ago

    The surge is only appearing to work right now because we are PAYING our enemy militants for leaving the area.

  • 1 decade ago

    Who care it's about the economy stupid . Once Obama is sworn in as our next president we will not be talking about this none issue any more because the american troops will come home this country will have save 12 billions a month on a McCain /Bush personal war .

  • 1 decade ago

    I'm one of those people.... I dont understand. Sorry

  • 1 decade ago

    It doesnt work!

  • 1 decade ago

    Moron it is still working... you cannot have that kind of change overnight!

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