A Christian Liberal is NOT an oxymoron.

Posted by XT on February 12th, 2008 in World News

So it looks like the surge in Iraq has become a surge without end:

Meeting with top commanders here, Mr. Gates said that after the departure this summer of the five extra combat brigades sent last year in “the surge” to pacify the Baghdad area, the American command should assess whether further troop reductions would hurt security.

In practical terms, his assertion makes it likely that American troop levels in Iraq will not drop much below 130,000 this year — and certainly not to the 100,000 level advocated by some military officials and analysts worried about the protracted strain on the Army from long deployments in the nearly five-year-old Iraq war.

So we aren’t going to listen to the generals after all - the cowards want to surrender as badly as Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama. We’ve shown we can make progress by throwing something close to the proper number of soldiers at the problem. The fault with that is that we don’t have enough soldiers to do it indefinitely.

So our troops will soldier on without proper manning levels or badly needed down time at home. And the political progress in Iraq?

The silence is deafening.

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