According to this article [1], Bush’s troop surge, which was aimed at reducing violence in Baghdad, already shows signs of failure. While violence has fallen inside Baghdad, as you might expect following an influx of U.S. troops, insurgents have simply moved elsewhere, killing American troops and other people in areas not affected by the surge.
Bush, not surprisingly, focuses on Baghdad, claiming there are “some encouraging signs.” But by far my favorite quote comes from White House spokesperson Dana Perino, who gives us this insipid tautology: “You’re going to have days where it looks like the violence has ebbed, and there are going to be other days when you have violence in which our service members or innocent Iraqis or Iraqi soldiers are killed.” Seriously, our tax dollars are actually paying for her to tell us this self-evident tripe.
What will Bush’s troop surge ultimately achive? Only time will tell. But it looks like Bush is merely playing yet another game of whack-a-mole, an activity he seems to find endlessly amusing, despite the fact that it wastes staggering amounts of lives and money, both in America and in Iraq.
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