The Surge

There seems to have been some talking and writing about how "the Surge" was the absolutely correct thing to do. http://www.mahablog.com/2008/06/24/teh-stupid-it-burns/ David Brooks has a column in the New York Times today in which the Keyboarding Cabbage waxes philosophical about President Bush’s genius in ordering the surge, which as you know has accomplished its main goal of enabling the forging of a stable and sustainable government in Baghdad... People seem to be arguing about this. At the time, the notion of sending more troops over to a war zone where the armed forces had their backs to the wall because their numbers were insufficient to cope with the civil war in which they found themselves, seemed like a good military idea: if you're getting smacked around, get some more guys to fight on your side. I myself just never stopped hating the whole immorality- the smug American immorality- of it all, surge or no surge, the war was crap. Can you imagine a country so stupid that it goose steps into a fabricated war, then spends hours debating whether more troops on the ground would be a good idea? Same country that gave you sub-primes. How stupidly and immorally obtuse can a nation become? To argue about whether more fighters is an advantage or not, and yet not to be in the streets and demonstrating against the crooks who have led this country?