tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8475986.post1908558894784287696..comments2024-03-21T05:29:07.463-04:00Comments on THE ASTUTE BLOGGERS: IT'S TIME DEMOCRATS LOOKED THEMSELVES IN THE MIRRORUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8475986.post-76237619268289446762008-10-11T22:02:00.000-04:002008-10-11T22:02:00.000-04:00With al due respect there is no evidence whatsoeve...With al due respect there is no evidence whatsoever that "the surge" has worked. There is a lot of propaganda but not much else. One of Obama's <I>problems</I> is that he has let himself be cowed by McCain et. al. into agreeing that the surge has "worked." <BR/><BR/>There is less violence today in Iraq than prior to "the surge" but there is no evidence of a causal relation - after all, lots of the ethnic cleansing had already been accomplished, Al Sadr, called off his dogs and we begin to buy allies among the various sects. Sending more troops <I>coincided</I> with the decline in violence but correlation, as they say, is not causation. Sorry.<BR/><BR/>PS: On top of all that, there is no guarantee that the violence will remain low and plenty of evidence that in various parts of the country it is resurgent.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com