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Tyrone Slothrop
I've read Michael Yon enough to see the ups and downs of his work. But what he's talking about there is security. The point of the surge was to improve security to allow political progress, which is what President Bush was talking about a year ago in what I quoted. It hasn't happened. By the benchmarks set by the surge's proponents a year ago, it's been a failure. The pro-war crowd is now -- once again -- defining the benchmarks for success down to what's been accomplished.
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And the pro-abandon crowd is completely ignoring what has been accomplished.
[Hell, they've stopped talking about Iraq entirely, since it is no longer all gloom and doom]
So where's the middle?
