ratbastid, if you believe as I do that "surge" was a misnomer, then yes, the surge is working. The additional troops were requested as a result of a new strategy being implemented, not vice versa.
Not incidentally, that is an indictment of the prior strategy and the people who implemented it. People need to learn from history: the current strategy is more of an Abrams strategy, whereas the prior one was more of a Westmoreland strategy. You'd think that would have been accounted for in the planning, but apparently it wasn't. Those who don't learn from history are doomed to repeat it. And in this case, we lost three years and thousands of precious lives.
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