There are many things about the resource war in Iraq that I dislike but one in particular that has surfaced recently is the crowing about how the ‘surge’ has worked. The surge is just a fancy name for troop reinforcements and it is no surprise that such an increase has appeared to bring about an increase in peace and stability. But the surge is not over and we will not know whether it has succeeded until those reinforcements are removed.
Remember Mao’s thoughts on guerrilla warfare:
The enemy advances, we retreat;
the enemy camps, we harass;
the enemy tires, we attack;
the enemy retreats, we pursue
I imagine that the resistance forces in Iraq are biding their time, training and fortifying for the time when and if the US reinforcements leave. Only when that happens will we be able to say whether the surge has been a success or not.
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