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Has the Iraq Surge Succeeded?

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San Francisco : CA : USA | about 1 year ago  
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Is the Iraq Surge working?

On Monday morning, according to incoming wire reports, the death toll in Iraq just kept piling up. First, eight casualties were reported killed in a car bombing in Baghdad. Then, the number was revised upwards to twelve, followed by sixteen, and, finally, 23 before we stopped counting.

For anyone paying attention to events in Iraq, it would be hard to take seriously the US President's proposal that his troop surge has succeeded in pacifying the insurgency. According to a report released last week by the country's Interior Ministry, today's death toll was in keeping with a general rise in civilian casualties throughout the country. In February alone, the number of civilians killed rose by a third, with over 630 casualties.

Obviously, present military solutions to the conflict remain practically ineffective. If we are to look to political solutions to solve the conflict, what might those alternatives be? Short of a US military withdrawal, neither the Bush administration, nor any of the Presidential candidates seeking office, seem to be offering any serious solutions.

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