Reading through here I am reminded of why I think the “surge option” is a failure. I have no reason to think that we will do anything different than we have been doing for the past three years, just with more people. Having been unable to solve Iraq by throwing money at it we will now try to through soldiers at it, while more effective then money more troops are a poor substitute for a well thought out strategy.

For three years I have said that we were to short handed in Iraq but I no longer think that more troops could turn this around. We stumbled into this war without fully considering all of the forces at work, consequently we destroyed the Iraqi state and are left without any way to put it back together. The time to try and save Iraq has passed, now we need to figure out how we are going to deal with what takes its place.