They are so eager for defeat, they declare the surge to have failed when its only just begining. Frankly, I don't think they would know victory unless the bad guys held a press conference and declared that they give up and we win. Of course, I don't think they have the faintest idea what the surge actually means. I know when it was first in the news it was being reported as a random troop increase. Believe it or not, there is sound strategy behind the plan--Patraeus is a very sound military mind, he knows exactly what he is doing. And the thing is, it should work. If its allowed to. The enemy is very media savy, its probably the only reason they are even still with any influence. It is mostly illusory, thanks to the good folks at the MSM. As someone said to me just yesterday: 'As my friend who has served two tours in Iraq and I think he is over their for a third. Hardly any of the convoys get hit each day. His example was, "We run a hundred a day but only two get hit. I get home and they make it sound like everyone is getting hit."' We are talking about a media that is not 'balanced', their 'journalistic integrity' or 'impartiality' is just code language for being in the bed with the enemy. Being actively FOR the enemy and AGAINST us, because we are, after all, the greatest evil on the planet. We know how many soldiers die each day, but do we have any idea how many bad guys die? No clue. You have to really dig--I saw just recently that it was on the scale of 10 to 1 them to us. Not that you ever see that anywhere. You'd think the terrorists are just simply not dying.
As Pat Dollard stresses, but as the media seem to have a truly profound ignorance of: context 'What else are they going to do, and what else should we expecct? More crazy violence in Al Qaeda’s last corners. Endgame now?' They are not going to just go quietly, and to expect otherwise is sheer lunacy.
UPDATE: From patdollard.com:
'Only 4 of the 5 Surge brigades are in place - a stunning 69% of all IEDs have been defused since the Surge began, and Al Qaeda has lost control of the Anbar province, isolated in semi-hostile regions around Baghdad. Among many other advances. And what position will we be in regarding the Iran nuke/Afghanistan situations if we cut and run in Iraq?'
