March 20, 2007

ENABLING:

THE IRAQ SURGE: WHY IT'S WORKING ... (GORDON CUCULLU, March 20, 2007, NY Post)

'I WALKED down the streets of Ramadi a few days ago, in a soft cap eating an ice cream with the mayor on one side of me and the police chief on the other, having a conversation." This simple act, Gen. David Petraeus told me, would have been "unthinkable" just a few months ago. "And nobody shot at us," he added.

Petraeus, the new commander managing the "surge" of troops in Iraq, will be the first to caution realism. "Sure we see improvements - major improvements," he said in our interview, "but we still have a long way to go."

What tactics are working? "We got down at the people level and are staying," he said flatly. "Once the people know we are going to be around, then all kinds of things start to happen."


But we're not.

Posted by Orrin Judd at March 20, 2007 8:57 AM
Comments

That depends on what the meaning of "we" is. Methinks Petraeus includes Iraqi forces in his definition.

Posted by: ghostcat at March 20, 2007 3:43 PM

Even Hillary wants to keep troops there (for what, I don't know - but that's what she said).

Posted by: ratbert at March 20, 2007 5:36 PM

Where don't we "keep troops"?

Posted by: oj at March 20, 2007 8:25 PM

In San Francisco.

Posted by: ratbert at March 20, 2007 9:43 PM
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