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The Case For The SurgeWSJ: The shortest way home is a bold, heavier-footpring strategy now. President Bush is set to announce his new strategy for Iraq this week, and the early signs are that it will include both more American and Iraqi troops to improve security, especially in Baghdad. We think the American people will support the effort, as long as Mr. Bush treats this like the all-in proposition it deserves to be. The foreign policy cognoscenti and the political elites were happy to dismiss the fact that Saddam's trial was a real achievement of a struggling democracy fighting terror and sectarian strife. They were eager to deprecate the fact that Saddam was tried in court before courageous judges under the laws of his nation, with a chance to defend himself. They were willing to pretend it was no big deal to see a tyrant brought low, to see injustice punished and justice done. The Keane-Kagan plan is available here in bullet-point form. Not to take it as a "fruit salad," but I'm not sure we need to invest billions more in reconstruction. I'm more of a mind to reduce reconstruction dollars, to right around zero, to any areas which provide haven to terrorists. "Hearts and minds" can be "won" by punitive measures too, especially when the positive, nothing-but-carrots-no-matter-how-many-terrorists-you-harbor model doesn't seem to be working. I support a surge, and would continue to as long as some metrics begin pointing in the right direction. If they don't, then I guess I'd support pulling the troops back to more easily defended bases, ending patrols, etc., and basically hunkering down in Fortress Kurdistan to watch the Shias ethnically cleanse the Sunnis. Not that that's my preferred position, but if law cannot be restored through less-barbaric methods, then it will be restored, inevitably, through barbarous ones; people will not accept a life of perpetual terrorism, when the solution, albeit bloody and horrid, is within their means.
The first two answers are binary -- I realize that many who support a surge may only do so if the numbers are big enough, and/or the rules of engagement are loosened up, and/or the strategy is changed, and/or etc. And similarly those who say no may support those other changes, and still wish to win the war -- just without a surge. But still, all those caveats and preconditions aside, the basic question is still fairly binary. Or trinary, really, so Observer5 and seattleslough can vote too.
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