Quote Originally Posted by Gelatinous Cube View Post
For what it's worth, i was part of the surge and it did work. The objective was to make the Baghdad area so uncomfortable for insurgents that they would leave and give up. From the beginning of my deployment to the end, violence in Baghdad went down considerably.

If you want to talk failure in Iraq, talk about the political process and government building. Talk about the total failure of all parties to adress long term grievances reasonably. Talk about how all we did was teach the insurgents to wait for us to leave.

The Surge, however, worked as intended.

I sorry but that is only half true the surge did not happen in a vacumn