http://blogs.e-rockford.com/applesauce/2008/01/31/heres-where-the-surge-hasnt-worked/ Pat Cunningham offers an unabashedly liberal perspective on national politics. A note of caution: The language gets a litttle salty on some of the sites to which this blog links. So, don't say you weren't warned. By the way, this blog's name is inspired by the Will Rogers quote, "All politics is applesauce." Mon, 22 Mar 2010 14:27:44 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=wordpress-mu-1.2.4 http://blogs.e-rockford.com/applesauce/2008/01/31/heres-where-the-surge-hasnt-worked/#comment-246 MR. BASEBALL Sat, 02 Feb 2008 01:24:32 +0000 http://blogs.e-rockford.com/applesauce/2008/01/31/heres-where-the-surge-hasnt-worked/#comment-246 This whole business about the surge working is a big catch-22. By logic, if it's "working", then we should be able to withdraw our troops. Bush and his fellow Republicans turn it completely backwards. They seem to maintain that since it's working, the troops need to stay there or at least most of them need to stay. The point is also missed that since we have so many troops in Iraq, we do not have enough left over to do the job in Afghanistan, where the threat is much greater to us and where the Taliban is gaining strength. Why don't the questioners on these debates ever bring up Afghanistan and Pakistan? This whole business about the surge working is a big catch-22. By logic, if it’s “working”, then we should be able to withdraw our troops.
Bush and his fellow Republicans turn it completely backwards. They seem to maintain that since it’s working, the troops need to stay there or at least most of them need to stay. The point is also missed that since we have so many troops in Iraq, we do not have enough left over to do the job in Afghanistan, where the threat is much greater to us and where the Taliban is gaining strength. Why don’t the questioners on these debates ever bring up Afghanistan and Pakistan?

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