Peter Galbraith, on Book Salon:
I am amazed that the foreign policy community has bought into the idea that the surge is a success. You would think that they would measure success against our objectives and clearly we did not invade Iraq in 2003 so as to reduce violence between Sunnis and Shiites who were not fighting each other at the time.
I don’t see how a pro-Iranian Shiite government implacably opposed to a Baathist Sunni militia (the Awakening) is success.
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Whenever Lindsey Graham says on teevee that The Surge™ is a success, I yell, “measuring against what objectives?”
Maybe it’s reduced violence, and of course fewer of our soldiers are getting killed, but there’s absolutely no evidence that an orderly withdrawal started at the same time wouldn’t have accomplished exactly that.
Measured against what we were told The Surge™ would accomplish, it’s an utter failure. Not one benchmark has been met. No oil law, no revenue sharing, no corruption in ministries rooted out, no provincial elections.
The “Surge Is A Success” meme is a figment of the fruitful imaginations of the Kagans, Lieberman, Graham, and McCain.
Thanks Jane.
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The Foreign Policy Community knows that the Bush State Dept is signing their checks.