The Leveller: A modern day regulator

The surge

There has been little comment about the Bush administrations push for the “surge” in Iraq. Little comment is largely due to the fact that we are really tired of Iraq and know the long term consequence that no surge of troops or anything else for that matter will bring about some nebulous victory.

However, we often hear from Iraq war supporters how the surge is working. That there is great news coming out of Iraq and so on.

Lets assume the surge has resulted in “better” news as the supporters suggest. Can a claim of “its working” really be justified? We know it can’t but why let the supporters continue to fool themselves. It is all very discouraging but perhaps we can take some solace in the Ron Paul campaign where the biggest campaign message is that Iraq is a folly no matter what happens at this point.

We can already argue a case for failure. A failure war supporters will never admit too however. I think both sides however would like the other to submit to some admission of either success or failure. This seems like it should be attainable but somehow it will never probably be.

So how can the U.S. learn from any mistake in Iraq under such a circumstance. The deleterious of this ignorance is already apparent. Pakistan and Afghanistan are suffering. We are witnessing Pakistan’s descent into the same morass as Iraq. Of course Pakistan will be a much worse case because the threat of a nuke falling into the wrong hands and so on, everything the Bush administration told us to fear about Iraq will be present in Pakistan, and we don’t need weapons inspectors or some gambit about the intelligence community allegedly providing some bad intel on this one. The entire middle east will be in a more precarious position than Iraq’s S.H. ever threatened.

What will be the U.S.‘s case for stabilization in Pakistan should it begin to crumble under what U.S. foreign policy advisers would deem hostile people should the more radical elements in Pakistan take control?